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amahuia.

Headword: 
amahuia.
Principal English Translation: 

to paper something (see Molina), or to wrap in paper (see attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
amauia
Alonso de Molina: 

amauia. nitla. (pret. onitlaamaui.) empapelar algo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 4v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

ĀMAHUIĀ vt to paper something / empapelar algo (M)[(1)Rp.48]. R fails to mark the initial vowel long. See ĀMA-TL, -HUIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 10.

Horacio Carochi / English: 

amahuia, empapelar
Horacio Carochi, Compendio del arte de la lengua mexicana (1759), 149.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

amahuia = envolver en papel
Francisco Paso y Troncoso, Colección de gramáticas de la lengua mexicana (1900), 37.

mo-ama-huia = "empapelarse, estar envuelto en papel"
Bernardino de Sahagún, Veinte himnos sacros de los Nahuas, ed. Angel María Garibay Kintana (México: UNAM, 1995), 38.

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