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tzicahuazhuia.

Headword: 
tzicahuazhuia.
Principal English Translation: 

to comb one's hair; to comb something (see Molina and Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tzicauazhuia
IPAspelling: 
tsikɑwɑːswiɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

tzicauazhuia. nino. (pret. oninotzicahuazui.) peinarse.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 152r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TZICAHUĀZHUIĀ vrefl,vt to comb one’s hair; to comb something / peinarse (M), lo peina (Z) [(4)Zp.96,198,217]. M also has a variant tziquauazuia. See TZICAHUĀZ-TLI, -HUIĀ.

TZICUAHUĀZHUIĀ. See TZICAHUĀZHUIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 311.