to pay something, to make restitution for something (See Karttunen)
Orthographic Variants:
pōpōhua
IPAspelling:
poːpoːwɑ
Frances Karttunen:
PŌPŌHU(A) to pay something, to make restitution for something / restituir lo ajeno (M), pagar una cosa (S) M combines this with POHPŌHU(A) 'to clean something' in a single entry. This is not directly attested in the sources for this dictionary but is implied by intransitive PŌPŌHU(I). redup. PŌHU(A). Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 203.