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cohuia.

Headword: 
cohuia.
Principal English Translation: 

to buy something for someone (applicative of cōhua)

James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 215.

Orthographic Variants: 
couia
IPAspelling: 
koːwiɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

couia. nicno. (pret. onicnocoui.) comprar algo para si.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 24v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

CŌHUIĀ vrefl to buy something for oneself / comprar algo para sí (M) See CŌHU(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 40.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

nicno. used apparently mainly with the reflexive.
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 215.

IDIEZ morfema: 
cōhuiā.
IDIEZ traduc. inglés: 
to buy s.t. for s.o.
IDIEZ def. náhuatl: 
Nouhquiya CŌHUILIĀ. nic. Macehualli quipatla ica tomin ce tlamantli huan quimaca ceyoc. “Na quemman niyauh Tecomate nochipa niccohuia pantzin nocihuapil pampa quiamati quicuaz mohmoztlah. ”
IDIEZ def. español: 
A. nic. una persona compra una cosa y le da a algien. “Yo cuando voy a Tecomate siempre le compro pan a mi hija porque le gusta comerlo diario”.
IDIEZ morfología: 
cōhua, iā2.
IDIEZ gramática: 
tlach3.
themes: 
Markets, Commerce, Economy