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huilohua.

Headword: 
huilohua.
Principal English Translation: 

impersonal form of the verb yauh, to go; found in central Nahuatl, not in Puebla and Tlaxcala

Here in This Year: Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley, ed. and transl. Camilla Townsend, with an essay by James Lockhart (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010), 57.

IPAspelling: 
wiːlowɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

HUĪLOHUA for leavetaking to take place / todos van (M) B marks the O long twice /K89/ and leaves it unmarked for length once. C and T share a notation which appears to represent OHUA but possibly represents OHUA. nonact. HU(I). HUĪHUĪLOHUA redup. HUĪLOHUA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 90.