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mahuizcuitia.

Headword: 
mahuizcuitia.
Principal English Translation: 

to learn from experience; to correct someone, to inspire a respectful attitude in someone (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
mahuizcuītiā
IPAspelling: 
mɑwiskwiːtiɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

MAHUIZCUĪTIĀ vrefl,vt to learn from experience; to correct someone, to inspire a respectful attitude in someone / se escarmienta (T), lo escarmienta (T) [(6)Tp.150,188]. M has intransitive mahuizcui ‘to take fear, become frightened.’ See MAHUIZ-TLI, CUĪTIĀ .

MAHUIZCUĪTILIĀ applic. MAHUIZCUĪTIĀ .

MAHUIZCUĪTĪLŌ nonact. MAHUIZCUĪTIĀ .
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 132.

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