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alaxoa.

Headword: 
alaxoa.
Principal English Translation: 

to polish something (see Karttunen); see also our entry, alaxoā, from contemporary Eastern Huastecan Nahuatl (IDIEZ), which has the added meaning of to caress someone

Orthographic Variants: 
alaxoā
IPAspelling: 
ɑlɑʃoɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

ALAXOĀ vt to polish something / lo afina, lo lima, lo pule, lo alisa (Z)[(1)Zp.185]. See ALAZTIC
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 9.

See also: 
alaxoā.