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cehuapahua.

Headword: 
cehuapahua.
Principal English Translation: 

to be numb, or to be stiff with cold (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
ceuapaua
IPAspelling: 
sewɑpɑːwɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

ceuapaua. ni. (pret. oniceuapauac.) aterirse, o pararse yerto de frio.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 18v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

CEHUAPĀHU(A) to get stiff with cold / aterirse, o pararse yerto de frío (M) [(1)Cf.101r]. See CE-TL, HUAPĀHU(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 28.

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