to seek something as one seeks flowers (see Karttunen)
Orthographic Variants:
xōchitēmoā
IPAspelling:
ʃoːtʃiteːmoɑː
Frances Karttunen:
XŌCHITĒMOĀ vt to seek something as one seeks flowers / busco y escojo (algo) como flores (C for first pers. sg. subject) [(2)Cf.76r, (1)Rp.49]. See the discussion under XŌCHITĒMOĀ with incorporated object. See XŌCHI-TL, TĒMOĀ. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 328.