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huicxitia.

Headword:

huicxitia.

Principal English Translation:

to cook something (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants:

huicxitiā

IPAspelling:

wikʃitiɑː

Frances Karttunen:

HUICXITIĀ vt to cook something / lo coce, lo cocina (T) [(3)Tp.178,(3)Xp.69]. Although the vowel of the second syllable before causative –TĪA is long in X, as is should be, it is shirt in T and also in C’s corresponding IUCXITIĀ. caus. HUICCI.

HUICXITILIĀ applic. HUICXITIĀ.

HUICXITĪLŌ nonact. HUICXITIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 88.

themes:

Food, Eating, Cooking