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chichicopi.

Headword: 
chichicopi.
Principal English Translation: 

to blink, to wink (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
chihchihcopi
IPAspelling: 
tʃihtʃihkopi
Frances Karttunen: 

CHIHCHIHCOP(I) to blink, to wink / parpadea (T) [(3)Tp.124]. In T this has characteristically lost an internal glottal stop. It is to be found in the nonreduplicated form CHIHCOPILIĀ, also in T. See IHCOP(I).

CHIHCHIHCOPILIĀ applic. CHIHCHIHCOP(I)

CHIHCHIHCOPĪHUA nonact. CHIHCHIHCOP(I)
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 50.