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hueichihua.

Headword: 
hueichihua.
Principal English Translation: 

to grow large, to aggrandize oneself, to be vain; to enlarge, augment, exaggerate something (see Karttunen); in terms of augmenting, this verb has been seen in the meaning of to make a donation (see attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
huēichīhua, huechihua
IPAspelling: 
weːitʃiːwɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

HUĒICHĪHU(A) vrefl,vt to grow large, to aggrandize oneself, to be vain; to enlarge, augment, exaggerate something / se da por maravilla (esta fruta) (C) jacta, se enorgullece, es egoísta, se hace grande (T), lo engrandece (T) See HUĒ(I), CHĪHU(A).

HUĒICHĪHUILIĀ applic. HUĒICHĪHU(A)

HUĒICHĪHUALŌ nonact. HUĒICHĪHU(A)
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 85.

Attestations from sources in English: 

yhua franco de Sanctiago oquihuechiuh caxtoli pos = And Francisco de Santiago donated 15 pesos (Tepemaxalco, Toluca Valley, 1653)
Caterina Pizzigoni and Camilla Townsend, Indigenous Life after the Conquest: The De la Cruz Family Papers of Colonial Mexico (University Park, Penn.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2021), 52, 83.