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ixehua.

Headword: 
ixehua.
Principal English Translation: 

to pretend to be someone else (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
ixeua
IPAspelling: 
iːʃeːwɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

ixeua. nite. (pret. oniteixeuh.) representar persona en farsa.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 45v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

in spiritu sancto in ipan omixeuhtzino in huilotl = the Holy Ghost, Who took the form of a dove (central Mexico, early seventeenth century)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 160–161.