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ixhuia.

Headword: 
ixhuia.
Principal English Translation: 

to level something out with the eyes or with an astrolabe (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
ixuia
IPAspelling: 
iːʃwiɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

ixuia. nitla. (pret. onitlaixui.) nivelar con el ojo, o con astrolabio.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 48v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

ĪXHUIĀ vt to level something, to make something even, to cross something, to put something crossways / nivelar con el ojo o con astrolabio (M), lo cruza,lo atraviesa (T) [(3)Tp.215]. See ĪX-TLI, -HUIĀ

ĪXHUILIĀ applic. ĪXHUIĀ

ĪXHUĪLŌ nonact. ĪXHUIĀ
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 114.