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poyahui.

Headword: 
poyahui.
Principal English Translation: 

to darken (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
poyāhui
IPAspelling: 
poyɑːwi
Frances Karttunen: 

POYĀHU(I) to darken / obscurecerse (K) [(1)Tp.137,(2)Zp.82,164]. This is attested in Z in the form ĪXPOYĀHU(I) 'to be dizzy' and in T in ĪXTLAPŌPOYĀHU(I) 'to get dark.' See POYĀHU(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 204.