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cuauhhuia.

Headword: 
cuauhhuia.
Principal English Translation: 

to hit someone, something with a stick (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cuauhhuiā, cuauhuia
IPAspelling: 
kwɑwwiɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

CUAUHHUIĀ vt to hit someone, something with a stick / le pega con palo, le da una paliza (T) [(3)Tp.182]. See CUAHU(I)-TL, -HUIĀ.

CUAUHHUILIĀ applic. CUAUHHUIĀ

CUAUHHUĪLŌ nonact. CUAUHHUIĀ
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 62.

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