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izolihui.

Headword: 
izolihui.
Principal English Translation: 

for something to get old, worn out through use

James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 219.

Orthographic Variants: 
içoliui
IPAspelling: 
isoliwi
Alonso de Molina: 

izoliui. (pret. oizoliuh.) enuejecerse la ropa, los libros las esteras o cosas semejantes.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 33v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

IHZOLIHU(I) for things to get old, wear out / envejecerse la ropa, los libros, las esteras o cosas semejantes (M). This is implied by IHZOLOĀ.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

ihçolihui. Class 2: ōihçoliuh. 219