for one’s head to break; to break someone’s head (see Karttunen)
Orthographic Variants:
cuāxamāniā
IPAspelling:
kwɑːʃɑmɑːniɑː
Frances Karttunen:
CUĀXAMĀNIĀ vrefl,vt for one’s head to break; to break someone’s head / quebrantarse o quebrarse la cabeza (M), This is indirectly attested in CUĀXAMĀNILIĀ. See CUĀ(I)-TL, XAMĀNIĀ. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 66.