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yaochichihua.

Headword: 
yaochichihua.
Principal English Translation: 

to arm another for war; to arm oneself for a war (see Molina and Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
yaochichiua
IPAspelling: 
yɑːoːtʃihtʃiːwɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

yaochichiua. nite. (pret. oniteyaochichiuh.) armar a otro desta manera.
yaochichiua. nino. (pret. oninoyaochichiuh.) armarse para laguerra.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 31r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

YĀŌCHIHCHĪHU(A) vrefl to arm oneself for battle / armarse para la guerra (M) [(1)Cf.159]. See YĀŌ-TL, CHIHCHĪHU(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 335.

themes: 
War, Conflict