icuilhuia. | Nahuatl Dictionary

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Headword:

icuilhuia.

Principal English Translation:

to write something to or for someone (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling:

ihkwilwiɑː

Frances Karttunen:

(I)HCUILHUIĀ vt to write something to or for someone / se lo escribe (T) [(1)Cf.65v,(4)Tp.187]. applic (I)CUILOĀ (I)HCUILHUILIĀ applic. (I)HCUILHUIĀ (I)HCUILHUĪLŌ nonact. (I)HCUILHUIĀ
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 97.

Attestations from sources in English:

applicative of icuiloa
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 219.