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zonehualtia.

Headword: 
zonehualtia.
Principal English Translation: 

to cause something to swell; to suffocate (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
zōnēhualtiā
IPAspelling: 
soːneːwɑltiɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

ZŌNĒHUALTIĀ vt to cause something to swell; to suffocate / lo esponja (T), sofoca (Z) [(3)Tp.202, (2)Zp.116,214]. caus. ZŌNĒHU(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 348.