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cuachipahua.

Headword: 
cuachipahua.
Principal English Translation: 

to brush someone’s hair (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cuāchipāhua
IPAspelling: 
kwɑːtʃipɑːwɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

CUĀCHIPĀHU(A) vt to brush someone’s hair / lo cepilla (Z) [(2)Zp.27,186]. See CUĀ(I)-TL, CHIPĀHU(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 56.