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mochihua.

Headword: 
mochihua.
Principal English Translation: 

to occur, to come about (see Karttunen); to take place

Orthographic Variants: 
mochīhua
IPAspelling: 
motʃiːwɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

MOCHĪHU(A) to occur, to come about / sucede, acontece, ocurre (Z) [(2-)Cf.507,1171, (5)Zp.4,90,118,169,224]. This is the non-first person reflexive form of the verb CHĪHU(A) ‘to make or do something.’ See CHĪHU(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 150.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents mochihua in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

vmochihv in ciudad de tlsn— cenpualilhuitl metztli março de 1545 xiuitl = Done in the city of Tlaxcala, the 20th day of the month of March of the year of 1545. (Tlaxcala, 1545)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 34. 212–213.

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