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xochiyoa.

Headword: 
xochiyoa.
Principal English Translation: 

to flower (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
xōchiyoā
IPAspelling: 
ʃoːtʃiyoɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

XŌCHIYOĀ to flower / brotar o florecer el rosal (M) [(1)Tp.248, (1)Zp.60,229]. It is not clear whether this is the general form or a T variant. In T the preterit is formed regularly after the pattern of –OĀ verbs, but the Z form suggests it may be a -HUA verb forming the preterit as -HUAC. In this case, one would expect the O to be long. M gives the verb once as xochyoua and once as xuchioa with no preterit form. See XŌCHIYŌ-TL, XŌCHI-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 329.

themes: 
Flowers
Plants, Trees, Flora