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yecahuia.

Headword: 
yecahuia.
Principal English Translation: 

for something to be rinsed out, dried (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
yecāhuiā
IPAspelling: 
yekɑːwiɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

YECĀHUIĀ vrefl for something to be rinsed out, dried / se enjuaga (se saca jabón) (T) [(1)Tp.163]. Diphthongization of Ē and initial glide-formation leads to an ambiguity in T. The single attestation may have a reflex of a long vowel in the initial syllable.

YECĀHUĪLŌ nonact. YECĀHUIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 336.