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ahuia tecan.

Headword: 
ahuia tecan.
Principal English Translation: 

to scorn someone, or to rejoice at his misfortune (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
auia tecan
Alonso de Molina: 

auia tecan. (pret. teca onauix.) escarnecer de alguno, oholgarse de su mal.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 9v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

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