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xahuani.

Headword: 
xahuani.
Principal English Translation: 

for water or other liquid to fall in a mass (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
xahuāni
IPAspelling: 
ʃɑwɑːni
Frances Karttunen: 

XAHUĀN(I) for water or other liquid to fall in a mass / caer golpe de agua, u otras cosas liquidas (C) [(1)Cf.75r].
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 321.

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Water