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ixmelahua.

Headword: 
ixmelahua.
Principal English Translation: 

to straighten something (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
īxmelāhua
IPAspelling: 
iːʃmelɑːwɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

ĪXMELĀHU(A) vt to straighten something / lo endereza (Z) [(3)Tp.51, 199]. See ĪX-TLI, MELĀHU(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 116.