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cayacihui.

Headword:

cayacihui.

Principal English Translation:

for clothes to wear out (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants:

cayahcihui

IPAspelling:

kɑyɑhsiwi

Frances Karttunen:

CAYAHCIHU(I) for clothes to wear out / se desgasta (ropa) (T) [(1)Tp.115]. The single attestation in T does not have an internal glottal stop, but in view of the tendency in T to lose such glottal stops, this is a plausible derivation from (I)HCIHU(I). Compare TEOHCIHU(I) ‘to be hungry.’ The first element may be related to M’s cacayactic ‘something thin, with respect to a cloak or blanket.’ This appears to be synonymous with CANĀHU(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 26.

themes:

Textiles, Clothing