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.