Search Issues: Update 2026-09-16 - Repairs to some of our search pages are ongoing. Thank you for your continued patience!

Meanwhile, elements of the Advanced Search are working and the Alphabetical Listings are working, too.

xochitemoa.

Headword: 
xochitemoa.
Principal English Translation: 

to seek flowers (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
xōchitēmoā
IPAspelling: 
ʃoːtʃiteːmoɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

XŌCHITĒMOĀ to seek flowers / busco flores (C for first pers. sg. subject) [(2)Cf.76r]. C contrasts this in the case where XŌCHI is the incorporated object and where it functions as a manner adverbial. In the latter case, an object prefix precedes XŌCHI, nixōchitēmoa ‘I seek flowers’ and nicxōchitēmoa cuīcatl ‘I seek songs as I would flowers.’ See XŌCHI-TL, TĒMOĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 328.

themes: 
Flowers
Plants, Trees, Flora