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Headword:

malacachihui.

Principal English Translation:

to spin, revolve (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling:

mɑlɑkɑtʃiwi

Frances Karttunen:

MALACACHIHU(I) to spin, revolve / girar (K) [(3)Tp.136]. This intransitive verb is only attested in the compound ĪXMALACACHIHU(I) ‘to be dizzy, bewildered’ and in derived forms in M. See MALACACHOĀ.

MALACACHIHUĪHUA nonact. MALACACHIHU(I)

MALACACHIHUĪTIĀ caus. MALACACHIHU(I)
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 134.