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etiya.

Headword: 
etiya.
Principal English Translation: 

to become heavy (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
etiyɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

ETIY(A) pret: ETĪX to become heavy / hacerse pesado (M) [(1)Bf.7v]. Like other verbs in IY(A), this probably has alternate preterit forms with long and short vowels. See ETIC.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 78.