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ixpoyahui.

Headword: 
ixpoyahui.
Principal English Translation: 

to get dizzy (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
īxpoyāhui
IPAspelling: 
iːʃpoyɑːwi
Frances Karttunen: 

ĪXPOYĀHU(I) to get dizzy / mareado (Z) [(2)Zp.82,164]. Z glosses this as an adjective, but in form it is a verb. M has transitive ixpoyahua ‘to dazzle, bewilder someone.’ See ĪX-TLI, POYĀHU(I)
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 118.