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chicahuilia.

Headword: 
chicahuilia.
Principal English Translation: 

to hasten work, to push work to the point of exhaustion (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
chicāhuiliā
IPAspelling: 
tʃikɑːwiliɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

CHICĀHUILIĀ vt to hasten work, to push work to the point of exhaustion / se apura a trabajar (T) applic. CHICĀHU(A)

CHICĀHUILILIĀ applic. CHICĀHUILIĀ

CHICĀHUILĪLŌ nonact. CHICĀHUILIĀ
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 46.

themes: 
Labor, Work, Labor Concerns