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zozolotza.

Headword: 
zozolotza.
Principal English Translation: 

for falling water to make noise when it hits other water (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
sosolotsɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

zozolotza. nitla. (pret. onitlazozolotz.) hazer ruido el chorro de agua que cae sobre otra agua.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 25r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

ZOZOLOTZ(A) vt to cause something to make a rumbling, roaring sound / hacer ruido el chorro de agua que cae sobre otra agua (M) [(2)Cf.74v,129r]. See ZOLŌN(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 349.

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