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ixnextlachiya.

Headword: 
ixnextlachiya.
Principal English Translation: 

to have cataracts, for one’s vision to be clouded (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
īxnextlachiya
IPAspelling: 
iːʃneʃtɬɑtʃiyɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

ĪXNEXTLACHIY(A) to have cataracts, for one’s vision to be clouded / catarata, ve como nublado (Z) [(2)Zp.26,163]. In booth the attestations the vowel of the second syllable is marked long. See ĪX-TLI, NEX-TLI, TLACHIY(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 116.