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mahuizo.

Headword: 
mahuizo.
Principal English Translation: 

something or someone honorable and glorious (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
mauizo, mahuizoh
IPAspelling: 
mɑwisoh
Alonso de Molina: 

mauizo. cosa honrosa y gloriosa.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 54r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

MAHUIZOH something or someone honorable and glorious / cosa honorosa y gloriosa (M), cosa o persona que tiene honra y gloria (C) [(4)Cf.6r,7r, (2)Rp.44,100]. This appears to be a reduction of MAHUIZZOH by degemination, but it is possible that a different derivation is involved. See MAHUIZ-TLI, -YOH.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 132.

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Religion (Indigenous)