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camapiya.

Headword: 
camapiya.
Principal English Translation: 

to hold something in one’s mouth (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
kɑmɑpiyɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

CAMAPIY(A) vt; pret: -PIX ~ -PIX to hold something in one’s mouth / lo tiene en la boca (T) [(3)Tp.179]. See CAM(A)-TL, PIY(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 23.