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.