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cuapetzoa.

Headword: 
cuapetzoa.
Principal English Translation: 

to cut the hair very short, to shave the scalp (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cuāpetzoā
IPAspelling: 
kwɑːpetsoɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

CUĀPETZOĀ vrefl,vt to cut the hair very short, to shave the scalp / se corta el pelo muy corto, se alisa el pelo (T), le corta el pelo muy corto, le alisa el cabello (T) [(6)Tp.148,184]. See CUĀ(I)-TL, PETZOĀ.

CUĀPETZOLHUIĀ applic. CUĀPETZOĀ.

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