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maxelihui.

Headword: 
maxelihui.
Principal English Translation: 

to spread or scatter the branches of a tree or the like (see Molina); for leaves to fall (see Siméon)

Orthographic Variants: 
maxeliui
IPAspelling: 
mɑːʃeliwi
Alonso de Molina: 

maxeliui. (pret. omaxeliuh) esparzirse o desparramarse las ramas del arbol o de cosa semejante.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 54v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

maxeliui (p. omaxeliuh, v. n.) = desparramarse, caer, hablando de las hojas (s. XVI)
Rémi Siméon, Diccionario de la lengua náhuatl o mexicana (Mexico: Siglo XXI, 1988), 266.