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cauhtehua.

Headword: 
cauhtehua.
Principal English Translation: 

to make one's will; to stop and remain somewhere; to leave, relinquish or abandon something (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cāuhtēhua, cauhteua
IPAspelling: 
kɑːwteːwɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

cauhteua. nino. (pret. oninocauhteuac.) testar, hazer testamento, o detenerse y quedarse en algun lugar.
cauhteua. nic. (pret. oniccauhteuac.) dexar a otro, o a otra cosa, e yrse luego a alguna parte.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 13r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

CĀUHTĒHU(A) vrefl, vt to make ' will; to stop and remain somewhere; to leave, relinquish or abandon something / testar, hacer testamento, o detenerse y quedarse en algun lugar (M), dejar a otro, o a otra cosa, e irse luego a alguna parte (M) [(2)Zp.40,185]. See CAHUA, ĒHU(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 25.

Attestations from sources in English: 

cauhtehua (verb) = to leave a place Daniel Garrison Brinton, Ancient Nahuatl Poetry: Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems (1887), 151.

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