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ixehuia.

Headword: 
ixehuia.
Principal English Translation: 

to take a risk, to expose oneself to hazard (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
īxēhuiā
IPAspelling: 
iːʃeːwiɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

ĪXĒHUIĀ vrefl to take a risk, to expose oneself to hazard / se atreve... se arriesga (Z) [(3)Zp.14,16,170]. See ĪX-TLI, ĒHU(A)
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 113.