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cochhuia.

Headword: 
cochhuia.
Principal English Translation: 

to have intercourse with a woman who is asleep, to rock someone in one’s arms (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cochhuiā, cochuia
IPAspelling: 
kotʃwiɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

COCHHUIĀ vt to have intercourse with a woman who is asleep, to rock someone in one’s arms / hacerlo a la mujer que está durmiendo (M), lo mece en los brazos (T) [(3)Tp.179]. See COCH(I).

COCHHUILIĀ applic. COCHHUIĀ

COCHHUĪLO nonact. COCHHUIĀ
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 36.

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