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ixilcahua.

Headword: 
ixilcahua.
Principal English Translation: 

to forget someone’s face, to forget what someone looks like (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
īxilcāhua
IPAspelling: 
iːʃilkɑːwɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

ĪXILCĀHU(A) vt to forget someone’s face, to forget what someone looks like / se le olvida la cara de otro (T) [(3)Tp.216]. See ĪX-TLI, (I)LCĀHU(A).

ĪXILCĀHUILIĀ applic. ĪXILCĀHU(A)

ĪXILCĀHUALŌ nonact. ĪXILCĀHU(A)
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 114.