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cuamelahua.

Headword: 
cuamelahua.
Principal English Translation: 

to straighten, raise the head; to brush someone’s hair (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cuāmelāhua
IPAspelling: 
kwɑːmelɑːwɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

CUĀMELĀHU(A) vrefl,vt to straighten, raise the head; to brush someone’s hair / se endereza la cabeza; le endereza la cabeza (T), lo cepilla (Z) [(6)Tp.147,183,(2)Zp.27,186]. See CUĀ(I)-TL, MELĀHU(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 59.

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