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izhuayo.

Headword: 
izhuayo.
Principal English Translation: 

leaf, foliage (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
izhuayō
IPAspelling: 
iswɑyoː
Frances Karttunen: 

-IZHUAYŌ leaf, foliage / hoja (M), su hoja (de la caña de la milpa) (T for possessed form) ((2)Tp.134,135,(4)Xp.48). This is historically related to XIHU(I)-TL ‘grass.’
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 123.

Attestations from sources in English: 

izhuayo = leafy, with leaves
Daniel Garrison Brinton, Ancient Nahuatl Poetry: Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems (1887), 156.

themes: 
Plants, Trees, Flora