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totohuia.

Headword: 
totohuia.
Principal English Translation: 

to set a dog to barking (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tohtohuiā
IPAspelling: 
tohtowiɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

TOHTOHUIĀ vt to set a dog to barking / hace ladrar al perro (T) [(3)Tp.212].

TOHTOHUILIĀ applic. TOHTOHUIĀ.

TOHTOHUĪLŌ nonact. TOHTOHUIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 243.

themes: 
Animals, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, Fish, etc.