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toyahuito.

Headword: 
toyahuito.
Principal English Translation: 

to leak, to spill, to sprinkle water (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
toyāhuito
IPAspelling: 
toyɑːwito
Frances Karttunen: 

TOYĀHU(I)to leak, to spill, to sprinkle water / derramarse cosas liquidas o hundirse el monton de harina (M), riega (Z) [(2)Zp.107,225]. Analogous QUIYAHU(I) ‘to rain’ and a number of comparable nominal forms have short A
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 249.

themes: 
Water