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ixxahuaca.

Headword: 
ixxahuaca.
Principal English Translation: 

to make a noise as of rushing, spouting water (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
īxxahuaca
IPAspelling: 
iːʃʃɑwɑkɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

ĪXXAHUACA to make a noise as of rushing, spouting water / ruido del chorro de agua (T) ((I) Tp. 135). If this is a compound with ĪX-TLI, then the XX sequence shortens to X. Another possibility is that T has Ī for IH, and this should be IHXAHUACA. See ĪX-TLI, XAXAHUACA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 122.

themes: 
Water