T | Nahuatl Dictionary

a small thing, a bit (the absolutive, tzocotl or tzotzocotl, is elusive when researched; and this usage does not seem to relate to zocotl, which is a tree, today called the jocote in Mexican Spanish)

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tzocoyōlhuiliā.

1. to overheat clothing or s.t. made of rubber or plastic that belongs to s.o. else and have it crumple, shrink and melt. 2. to take in an article of s.o.’s clothing that is too big.

# 1. Nic. Una persona quema la ropa, nailo, plástico de otro y después se arruga. “Simón quema la ropa de Rubén con la plancha porque es un bromista”. 2. Nic. Una persona arregla la ropa de alguien que está grande. “Alejandra va a dejar su ropa en casa de Nina y ella le reduce el pantalón porque está muy grande de las piernas”.

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tzocoyōlihui.

1. for s.t. to shrink on contact with fire. 2. for a snake or a worm to contract due to a noise or a threat.

# Ropa, hule y nailo se hace pequeño cuando le haya fuego. “Martín quemó un nailo que estaba tirado en el patio y nadamás de hizo chiquito”.

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tzocoyōloā.

1. for heat to crumple, shrink and melt s.t. made of rubber or plastic. 2. to take in an article of clothing that is too big. 3. for a worm or snake to cringe and contract when it is threatened.

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tzocoyōti.

to wheeze (to breath with difficulty).

# Ni. Una persona tiene tos y no puede respirar. “Reina su hijito tiene asma por eso nadamás a llorado”.

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tzocoyōtzin.

a kind of asthma.

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tzocuil.

tsokwil

Orthographic Variants:

tzoncuil

goldfinch (a bird)

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tzocuiloa.

tsohkwiloɑː

Orthographic Variants:

tzohcuiloā

to stain something (see Karttunen)

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tzocuilpatli.

tsohkwilpɑhtɬi

Orthographic Variants:

tzocuilpahtli

a certain medicinal root (see Molina)

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tzocuiltic.

tsohkwiltik

Orthographic Variants:

tzohcuiltic

something dirty, stained (see Karttunen)

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tzocuitlatic.

sweaty

(central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, 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), 112.

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