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tehuia.

Headword: 
tehuia.
Principal English Translation: 

to get struck with stones; or, to strike, pound something with stones

Orthographic Variants: 
teuia
IPAspelling: 
tewiɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

teuia. nitla. (pret. onitlateui.) dar golpes con piedra, pisar con pison, o bruñir mantas, papel o cosa assi.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 111v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TEHUIĀ vrefl,vt to get struck with stones; to strike, pound something with stones / se topetea (T), dar golpes con piedra, pisar con pisón, o bruñir mantas, papel, o cosa así (M) See TE-TL, -HUĪA. TEHUILIĀ applic. TEHUIĀ. TEHUĪLŌ nonact. TEHUIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 219.

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