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xoxohuiya.

Headword: 
xoxohuiya.
Principal English Translation: 

for something to turn green (see Karttunen); or black and blue, or green owing to an illness

Orthographic Variants: 
xoxōhuiya
IPAspelling: 
ʃoʃoːwiyɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

XOXŌHUIYA for something to turn green / pararse verdinegro de enfermedad, o descolorido, o pararse algo verde (M) [(2)Cf.36v]. In both attestations C specifically marks the vowel of the first syllable short and that of the second syllable long. See XŌ-, XOXŌHUIC.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 331–332.

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