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picilihui.

Headword: 
picilihui.
Principal English Translation: 

for something to get worn down, diminished, ground fine (see Karttunen and Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
piciliui
IPAspelling: 
pisiːliwi
Alonso de Molina: 

piciliui. (pret. opiciliuh.) hazerse menudo lo que era gruesso y redondo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 81v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

PICĪLIHU(I) for something to get worn down, diminished, ground fine / hacerse menudo lo que era grueso y redondo (M) This is implied by PICĪLTIC.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 193.