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tzompilihui.

Headword: 
tzompilihui.
Orthographic Variants: 
tzompiliui
IPAspelling: 
tsompiːliwi
Alonso de Molina: 

tzompiliui. ni. (pret. onitzompiliuh.) tener romadizo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 153r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TZOMPĪLIHU(I) to have a cold / tener romadizo (M), se pega el catarro, tiene catarro (T) [(3)Tp.244]. See TZOMPĪL-LI.

TZOMPĪLIHUĪHUA nonact. TZOMPĪLIHU(I).

TZOMPĪLIHUĪTIĀ caus. TZOMPĪLIHU(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 316.