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cahuantia.

Headword: 
cahuantia.
Principal English Translation: 

to set something afire (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cahuāntiā
IPAspelling: 
kɑwɑːntiɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

CAHUĀNTIĀ vt to set something afire / lo enciende, lo calienta, hace lumbre (Z) [(3)Zp.23,50,185]. In one of the two attestations the vowel of the first syllable is marked long, but it is not in the other or in related forms. See CAHUĀN(I), CAHUĀCTIC.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 21.