to lose sleep over something; to prevent someone from sleeping (see Karttunen)
Orthographic Variants:
cochihzoloā
IPAspelling:
kotʃihsoloɑː
Alonso de Molina:
cochizoloa. nino. (pret. oninocochizolo.) desuelarse, o desechar el sueño.
cochizoloa. nite. (pret. onitecochizolo.) quitar el sueño a otro. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 23r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.
Frances Karttunen:
COCHIHZOLOĀ vrefl, vt to lose sleep over something; to prevent someone from sleeping / desuela (Z), quitar el sueño a otro (M) [(2)Bf.7v,13v,(2)Zp.45,169]. In one of the two attestations in Z the glottal stop is missing and the preceding vowel is marked long. In the other the glottal stop is also missing, but the vowel is short. See COCH(I), IHZOLOĀ. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 37.