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ixchichilehui.

Headword: 
ixchichilehui.
Principal English Translation: 

to blush, flush, turn red in the face (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
īxchīchīlēhui
IPAspelling: 
iːʃtʃiːtʃiːleːwi
Frances Karttunen: 

ĪXCHĪCHĪLĒHU(I) to blush, flush, turn red in the face / sonroja (Z)[(2)Zp.117,163]. M has reflexive ixchichiloa with the same sense. See ĪX-TLI, CHĪCHĪLĒHU(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 111.

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