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cuaiztaya.

Headword: 
cuaiztaya.
Principal English Translation: 

for one’s hair to be turning gray (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cuāiztaya
IPAspelling: 
kwɑːistɑyɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

CUĀIZTAY(A) for one’s hair to be turning gray / encanecer o tornarse cana de la cabeza (M) [(1)Cf.93r]. See CUĀ(I)-TL, IZTAY(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 58.