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cuauhpitzahui.

Headword: 
cuauhpitzahui.
Principal English Translation: 

to get hard, tough; to get thin (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cuauhpitzāhui
IPAspelling: 
kwɑwpitsɑːwi
Frances Karttunen: 

CUAUHPITZĀHU(I) to get hard, tough; to get thin / envararse o pararse yerto (M), endurece (tortilla, carne), se adelgaza, se enflaquece (T) [(3)Tp.119]. In this compound T has a short vowel in the third syllable corresponding to the long vowel of the free form. M also has a variant of this in which the sequence UHP assimilates to PP. See CUAHU(I)-TL, PITZĀHU(I).

CUAUHPITZĀHUĪHUA nonact. CUAUHPITZĀHU(I)

CUAUHPITZĀHUĪTIĀ caus. CUAUHPITZĀHU(I)

CUAPPITZĀHU(I) See CUAUHPITZĀHU(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 63.