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cuauhpitzoa.

Headword: 
cuauhpitzoa.
Principal English Translation: 

for someone to become stiff, to become stiff, to be steadfast; to stiffen someone’s resolve, to give someone courage(see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cuauhpitzoā
IPAspelling: 
kwɑwpitsoɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

CUAUHPITZOĀ vrefl,vt for someone to become stiff, to become stiff, to be steadfast; to stiffen someone’s resolve, to give someone courage / pararse yerto como palo (M), le da valor (para hacer o no hacer una cosa ) (T) [(9)Tp.146,153,182]. The sequence UHP can assimilate to PP, as it does in M. See CUAHU(I)-TL, PITZOĀ.

CUAUHPITZŌLŌ nonact. CUAUHPITZOĀ

CUAPPITZOĀ See CUAUHPITZOĀ
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 63.