canahua.

Headword: 
canahua.
Principal English Translation: 

to smooth out and thin out planks or wide rocks, or clay when it is being prepared (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
canaua
IPAspelling: 
kɑnɑːwɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

canaua. nitla. (pret. onitlacanauh.) adelgazar tablas, o piedras anchas o la loza quando la hazen. &c.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 12r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

CANĀHU(A) vt to make something thin and flat / adelgazar tablas, o piedras anchas o la losa cuando la hace, etc. (M). See CANACTIC. CANĀHUILIĀ applic. CANĀHU(A). CANĀHUALŌ nonact. CANĀHU(A)
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 24.

Attestations from sources in English: 

canāhua = to make thin; to become thin (transitive and intransitive)
Michel Launey, An Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, translated and adapted by Christopher MacKay (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 113.

IDIEZ morfema: 
canāhua.
IDIEZ traduc. inglés: 
to shave planks of wood and reduce their thickness.
IDIEZ def. náhuatl: 
nic. Macehualli quixima ce huapalli tlen tilahuac ica machete pampa quinequi ma eli achi canactzin. “Jorge quicanahua ce huapalli para quicualtlaliz ce cuaxicalli. ”
IDIEZ def. español: 
A. nic. Una persona cepilla una Madera. “Jorge adelgaza una Madera para crear una batea”. Nitla. Una persona hecha tortillas nadamas con la mano. “Mi mamá muele mucho porque tiene muchos hijos”
IDIEZ morfología: 
canāhui, a4.
IDIEZ gramática: 
tlach2.
themes: 
Architecture, Construction, Buildings
Ceramics, Pottery
Technology, Tools
Wood, wooden material
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