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chanchihua.

Headword: 
chanchihua.
Principal English Translation: 

to make a home; to live

William Mills, "Nahuatl Folk Tales from Zongolica, Veracruz," Tlalocan 15 (2008), 17–79, example from p. 21. See below.

Orthographic Variants: 
chanchibah
Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

quipepenazque in tlalchiuhqui yn elimicque yn oncan chanchivazque (f. 11 r.) yn ipan estancia altepetl = buscar y escoger los labriegos, los labradores que vivan en la estancia del pueblo (Cuauhtinchan, Puebla, s. XVI)
Luis Reyes García, "Ordenanzas para el gobierno de Cuauhtinchan, año de 1559," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 10 (1972), 300–301.