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cuapatlachoa.

Headword: 
cuapatlachoa.
Principal English Translation: 

for one’s head to get crushed; to crush someone’s head (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cuāpatlachoā
IPAspelling: 
kwɑːpɑtɬɑtʃoɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

CUĀPATLACHOĀ vrefl,vt for one’s head to get crushed; to crush someone’s head / se aplasta la cabeza (T), le aplasta la cabeza (T) [(6)Tp.148,184]. See CUĀ(I)-TL, PATLACHOĀ.

CUĀPATLACHILHUIĀ applic. CUĀPATLACHOĀ

CUĀPATLACHŌLŌ nonact. CUĀPATLACHOĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 60.