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cuatzonahuia.

Headword: 
cuatzonahuia.
Principal English Translation: 

to wash one’s hair (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cuātzonāhuiā
IPAspelling: 
kwɑːtsonɑːwiɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

CUĀTZONĀHUIĀ vrefl to wash one’s hair / se lava la cabeza con agua (T) [(3)Tp.148]. See CUĀTZON-TLI, Ā-TL, -HUIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 71.