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calchihua.

Headword: 
calchihua.
Principal English Translation: 

to build a house (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
calchīhua
IPAspelling: 
kɑltʃiːwɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

CALCHĪHU(A) to build a house / hace una casa (T) [(3)Tp.113]. M has calchiualiztli ‘repairs made to a house.’ See CAL-LI , CHĪHU(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 21.