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pipi.

Headword: 
pipi.
Principal English Translation: 

to pluck, gather something in quantity (See Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
pihpī
IPAspelling: 
pihpiː
Frances Karttunen: 

PIHPĪ vt to pluck, gather something in quantity / coger muchas y varias (C) This reduplicated form is the distributive of PĪ 'to pluck, gather something' In T it is attested with incorporated objects referring to hair and beard, hence 'to cut one's hair' and 'to shave.' Although there is some evidence that PĪ has a long stem vowel, the attested applicative form in T has a short vowel before –LIĀ and -TZĪNOĀ. redup. PĪ.

PIHPILIĀ applic. PIHPĪ.

PIHPĪHUA nonact. PIHPĪ.

PIHPĪLTIĀ caus. PIHPĪ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 194.