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cruz tzicuinihua.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword:

cruz tzicuinihua.

Principal English Translation:

to jump in a cross (see Karttunen); this is partly a Spanish loanword (cruz, Spanish for cross) (SW)

Frances Karttunen:

TZICUĪNĪHUA T gives this as the nonactive form of the loan blend cruz-TZICUĪN(I) 'to jump in a cross (Tp.180). Elsewhere the nonactive of TZICUĪn(I) is TZICUĪNOHUA.