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cayahua.

Headword: 
cayahua.
Principal English Translation: 

to blunder; to deceive someone, to mock someone (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cayāhua
IPAspelling: 
kɑyɑːwɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

CAYĀHU(A) vrefl, vt to blunder; to deceive someone, to mock someone / engañarse a si mismo , equivocarse....burlarse, reirse de alguien (S) S and C treat this as a reflexive verb with the object of the deception expressed in construction with –CA. C cites in noca timocayāhua [with respect to me you practice deception.[ T and Z treat it as a simple transitive verb. The reduplicated form CAHCAYĀHU(A) is more common.

CAYĀHUILIĀ applic. CAYĀHU(A)

CAYĀHUALŌ nonact. CAYĀHU(A)
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 26.

IDIEZ morfema: 
cayāhua.
IDIEZ traduc. inglés: 
root of CAHCĀYAHUA. to deceive or mock s.o.
IDIEZ def. náhuatl: 
CAHCĀYAHUA iyollo. Macehualli quiiztlacatilia zo quipinauhtia ceyoc [K. 26].
IDIEZ gramática: 
tlach2.
themes: 
Behavior, Personality