calchihua. | Nahuatl Dictionary

Headword:

calchihua.

Principal English Translation:

to build a house (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants:

calchīhua

IPAspelling:

kɑltʃiːwɑ

Frances Karttunen:

CALCHĪHU(A) to build a house / hace una casa (T) [(3)Tp.113]. M has calchiualiztli ‘repairs made to a house.’ See CAL-LI , CHĪHU(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 21.