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tzincuitlahuiya.

Headword: 
tzincuitlahuiya.
Principal English Translation: 

for a plant to rot at the base (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tzīncuitlahuiya
IPAspelling: 
tsiːnkwitɬɑwiyɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

TZĪNCUITLAHUIY(A) pret; -HUIX for a plant to rot at the base / se pudre la planta (T) [(1)Tp.243]. See TZĪN-TLI, CUITL(A)-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 313.

themes: 
Plants, Trees, Flora