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cuauhtzayana.

Headword: 
cuauhtzayana.
Principal English Translation: 

to split kindling-wood (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cuauhtzayāna
IPAspelling: 
kwɑwtsɑyɑːnɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

CUAUHTZAYĀN(A) to split kindling-wood / raja leña [(3)Tp.120]. See CUAHU(I)TL, TZAYĀN(A).

CUAUHTZAYĀNALŌ nonact. CUAUHTZAYĀN(A)
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 65.

themes: 
Wood, wooden material