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ixilpitza.

Headword: 
ixilpitza.
Principal English Translation: 

to blow in someone’s eye (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
īxilpītza
IPAspelling: 
iːʃilpiːtsɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

ĪXILPĪTZ(A) vt to blow in someone’s eye / le sopla en el ojo (T) [(3)Tp.216]. T fails to mark the vowel of the second syllable short, but it is so marked in the Spanish-to-Nahuatl side of T. See ĪX-TLI, (I)LPĪTZ(A).

ĪXILPĪCHILIĀ applic. ĪXILPĪTZ(A)

ĪXILPĪTZALŌ nonact. ĪXILPĪTZ(A)
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 115.