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papacohua.

Headword: 
papacohua.
Principal English Translation: 

to celebrate; play; amuse or enjoy oneself; to take pleasure (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
papacoa
IPAspelling: 
pɑhpɑːkowɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

PAHPĀCOHUA nonact. PAHPĀQU(I). PAHPĀQU(I) to enjoy oneself, to take great pleasure / tomar placer y alegrarse (M) M also has transitive papaqui 'to repeatedly enjoy something' R consistently has PAHPAHQU(I) for PAHPĀQU(I) and its derivations. redup. PĀQU(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 184.

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