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cacchihua.

Headword: 
cacchihua.
Principal English Translation: 

to make shoes (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cacchīhua
IPAspelling: 
kɑktʃiːwɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

CACCHĪHU(A) to make shoes / hacer zapatos (S) [(2)Cf.51v,52r,(1)Rp.66]. None of the attestations has the second vowel marked long, but the compound is transparent.See CAC-TLI, CHĪHU(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 19.