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ichcua.

Headword: 
ichcua.
Principal English Translation: 

to remove earth with a hoe, to dig something (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
ichcua
IPAspelling: 
itʃkwɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

(I)CHCUA vt to remove earth with a hoe, to dig something / sacar tierra con el azadón (C).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 93.