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tzolaqui.

Headword: 
tzolaqui.
Principal English Translation: 

to fit (see Karttunen); or, to decline (for one that is not growing) (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
tzōlaqui
IPAspelling: 
tsoːlɑki
Alonso de Molina: 

desmedrar el que no crece, 41v (1571)

Frances Karttunen: 

TZŌLAQU(I) pret: -AC to fit / cabe (Z) [(2)Zp.22,227]. Only one of the attestations marks the vowel of the first syllable long. See TZŌL-LI, AQU(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 316.