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cepohua.

Headword: 
cepohua.
Principal English Translation: 

for a part of one’s body to be numb from cold or lack of circulation (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cepōhua
IPAspelling: 
sepoːwɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

CEPŌHUA prep: CEPŌHUAC for a part of one’s body to be numb from cold or lack of circulation / estar yerto y aterido de mucho frío, o estar entumecido algún miembro del cuerpo, o adormecido (M) [(2)Zp.53,194]. M has two entries for cepoa. The first is this item, and the second, meaning to scrub something and forming its preterit by final vowel loss, is not attested in the sources for this dictionary. See CE-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 32.

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