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pozahuac.

Headword: 
pozahuac.
Principal English Translation: 

something inflated or swollen (see Molina and Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
pozauac
IPAspelling: 
posɑːwɑk
Alonso de Molina: 

pozauac. cosa hinchada assi.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 82v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

POZĀHUAC something inflated, swollen / hinchado (Z) [(2)Zp.68,183]. See POZĀHU(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 204.

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