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tzicalhuia.

Headword: 
tzicalhuia.
IPAspelling: 
tsikɑlwiɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

tzicalhuia. nic. (pret. onictzicalhui.) detener alguna cosa a otro.
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: 

TZICALHUIĀ vt to fasten, affix something to something else, to keep something belonging to someone else / se lo pegar, se lo fija (T), detener alguna cosa a otro (M) [(5)Tp.182,214]. applic. TZICOĀ.

TZICALHUILIĀ applic. TZICALHUIĀ.

TZICALHUĪLŌ nonact. TZICALHUIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 311.