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amohuia.

Headword: 
amohuia.
Principal English Translation: 

to wash with soap (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
ahmohuiā
IPAspelling: 
ɑhmowiɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

AHMOHUIĀ verfl to wash with soap / enjabonarse, lavarse la cabeza con jabón (S) This is apparently derived from AHMŌL-LI ´soap´ with loss of L and vowel shortening. Although T, Z, and R all attest L-loss, M has amolhuia with the L, both reflexive and transitive, with the sense of ´to wash with soap.´ See AHMŌL-LI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 6.