for something to turn green (see Karttunen); or black and blue, or green owing to an illness
Orthographic Variants:
xoxōhuiya
IPAspelling:
ʃoʃoːwiyɑ
Frances Karttunen:
XOXŌHUIYA for something to turn green / pararse verdinegro de enfermedad, o descolorido, o pararse algo verde (M) [(2)Cf.36v]. In both attestations C specifically marks the vowel of the first syllable short and that of the second syllable long. See XŌ-, XOXŌHUIC. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 331–332.