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pochuia.

Headword: 
pochuia.
Principal English Translation: 

to smoke, fumigate something (See Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
pōchuiā
IPAspelling: 
poːtʃuiɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

PŌCHUIĀ vt to smoke, fumigate something / lo ahuma (Z) [(3)Zp.8,193,213]. This derivation with the form PŌC 'smoke' is apparently synonymous with T's POPŌCHHUIĀ with PŌCH. See PŌC-TLI, -HUĪA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 200.