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tzoncuacua.

Headword: 
tzoncuacua.
Principal English Translation: 

to chew something (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tzoncuahcuā
IPAspelling: 
tsonkwɑhkwɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

TZONCUAHCUĀ vt to chew something / lo masca, lo mastica (Z) [(2)Zp.82,199]. See TZON-TLI, CUAHCUĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 317.

themes: 
Food, Eating, Cooking