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amapohua.

Headword: 
amapohua.
Principal English Translation: 

to read (from a book or text) (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
āmapōhua
IPAspelling: 
ɑːmɑpoːwɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

amapoa. n. (pret. onamapouh.) leer libro, o relatar proceso.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 4v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

ĀMAPŌHU(A) to read (from a book or text) / leer libro, o relatar proceso (M)[(3)Tp.170]. See ĀMA-TL, PŌHU(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 10.

themes: 
Legal Matters, Documents
Writing, Literacy