to straighten, raise the head; to brush someone’s hair(see Karttunen)
Orthographic Variants:
cuāmelāhua
IPAspelling:
kwɑːmelɑːwɑ
Frances Karttunen:
CUĀMELĀHU(A) vrefl,vt to straighten, raise the head; to brush someone’s hair / se endereza la cabeza; le endereza la cabeza (T), lo cepilla (Z) [(6)Tp.147,183,(2)Zp.27,186]. See CUĀ(I)-TL, MELĀHU(A). Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 59.