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miyahuati.

Headword: 
miyahuati.
Principal English Translation: 

for a cornstalk to produce tassels and flowers (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
miyāhuati
IPAspelling: 
miyɑːwɑti
Frances Karttunen: 

MIYĀHUATI for a cornstalk to produce tassels and flowers / echar espiga y flor la caña del maiz (M) [(2)Cf. 108r, 114V]. In one of the attestations C has a glottal stop before verbal –TL, but since the noun stem ends in a vowel, this is probably an error. See MIYĀHUA-TL.

MIĀHUATI See MIYĀHUATI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 149.

themes: 
Flowers
Plants, Trees, Flora