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chipahui.

Headword: 
chipahui.
Principal English Translation: 

for something to become clean (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
chipāhui
IPAspelling: 
tʃipɑːwi
Frances Karttunen: 

CHIPĀHU(I) for something to become clean / se limpia (T) [(1)Tp.125]. This is a variant intransitive verb form with the same sense as intransitive CHIPĀHUA and contrasting with transitive CHIPĀHU(A). See CHIPĀHU(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 53.

themes: 
Cleanliness, Orderliness (or lack of)