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calacahuia.

Headword: 
calacahuia.
Principal English Translation: 

to attack someone, something (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
calacāhuiā
IPAspelling: 
kɑlɑkɑːwiɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

CALACĀHUIĀ vt to attack someone, something / lo ataca, lo asalta (Z) [(4)Zp.15,16,185,204].
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 21.