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iztaz-.

Headword: 
iztaz-.
Principal English Translation: 

white, a combining form (see iztac)

Attestations from sources in English: 

in vevetque, in jlamatque, in tzonjztaztivi, in quaiztaztivi, in pipinjxtivi = the old men, the old women, those who go white-haired, those who go white-headed, those who go emaciated with age (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 106.