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maxelhuia.

Headword: 
maxelhuia.
Principal English Translation: 

to open a road for someone through cane or weeds (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
mɑːʃelwiɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

maxelhuia. nitetla. (pret. onitetlamaxelhui) hender por cañaueral o yeruazal, haziendo camino paraque otros passen
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 54v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

maxelhuia ( p. omaxelhui: nitetla-) = abrir un camino a alguien a traves de los juncos, de las canas
Rémi Siméon, Diccionario de la lengua náhuatl o mexicana (Mexico: Siglo XXI, 1988), 266.

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