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axilia.

Headword: 
axilia.
Principal English Translation: 

to come to know something completely (the root verb is açi) (see Molina and Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
ɑhʃiliɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

axilia. nic. (pret. onicaxili.) alcanzar asaber algo enteramente.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 10r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

AHXILIĀ vt to get to know something entirely / alcanzar a saber algo enteramente (M) applic. AHCI
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 9.

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