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nehuiyanhuia.

Headword: 
nehuiyanhuia.
Principal English Translation: 

to be the occasion or cause of something happening to oneself (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
nehhuiyānhuiā
IPAspelling: 
nehwiyɑːnwiɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

NEHHUIYĀNHUIĀ vrefl to be the occasion or cause of something happening to oneself / sucederme algo dando yo la oración, o siendo yo la causa (M for first pers. sg. subject), doy yo la causa a lo que me sucede de mal (C for first pers. sg. subject) [(1)Cf.60v]. See -NEHHUIYĀN, -HUIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 162.