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zohuatia.

Headword: 
zohuatia.
Principal English Translation: 

for a man to marry a woman (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
zohuahtiā
IPAspelling: 
sowɑhtiɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

ZOHUAHTIĀ vt for a man to marry a woman / lo casa (hombre con mujer) (T) [(3)Tp.202]. Here a glottal stop intervenes between ZOHUA and the verbal suffix –TIĀ. See ZOHUA-TL.

ZOHUATILIĀ applic. ZOHUAHTIĀ.

ZOHUAHTILĪLŌ nonact. ZOHUAHTIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 347.

themes: 
Women, Men, Gender