to make a sound on bursting; or, to form a blister (see Karttunen)
IPAspelling:
ʃittomoːni
Alonso de Molina:
xittomoni. ni. (pret. onixittomon.) rebentando sonar. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 159v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.
Frances Karttunen:
XITTOMŌN(I) to make a sound on bursting; to form a blister / reventado sonar (M), se ampolla (T in construction with ‘hand’) [(3)Tp.165]. This is attested in the sources for this dictionary only in the compound MĀXITTOMŌN(I). The corresponding transitive verb in M would be XITTOMŌNIĀ.
XITTOMŌNĪHUA nonact. XITTOMŌN(I).
XITTOMŌNTIĀ caus. XITTOMŌN(I). Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 326.