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xolochahui.

Headword: 
xolochahui.
Principal English Translation: 

to become wrinkled because of age (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
xolochaui
IPAspelling: 
ʃolotʃɑwi
Alonso de Molina: 

xolochaui. ni. (pret. onixolochauh.) arrugarse de vejez.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 161r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

XOLOCHAHU(I) to get wrinkled / arrugarse de vejez (M) [(3)Tp.247]. See XOLOCHOĀ.

XOLOCHAHUĪHUA nonact. XOLOCHAHU(I).

XOLOCHAHUĪTIĀ caus. XOLOCHAHU(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 330.

Attestations from sources in English: 

xolochaui = it becomes wrinkled with age; xoxolochaui = it becomes very wrinkled here and there (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 95.

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