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xochacayolihui.

Headword: 
xochacayolihui.
Principal English Translation: 

for a woman to have calluses on top of her feet because of the long exercise of grinding maize (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
xochacayoliui
IPAspelling: 
ʃotʃɑkɑjoliwi
Alonso de Molina: 

xochacayoliui. ni. (pret. onixochacayoliuh.) tener callos encima del pie la muger por el largo exercicio de moler mayz. &c.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 160r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

themes: 
Corn, Maize