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ihiyotzacua.

Headword: 
ihiyotzacua.
Principal English Translation: 

to choke, suffocate; to choke, strangle someone (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
ihīyōtzacua
IPAspelling: 
ihiːyoːtsɑkwɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

IHĪYŌTZACU(A) vrefl,vt to choke, suffocate; to choke, strangle someone / enmudecer o atravesársele el bocado (M), atapar el huelgo a otro (M) el bocado (M), [(3)Tp.142,(1)Rp.89]. T gives the preterit of this as -TZACUAC, but M drops final vowel. /K098/ M also has ihiomotzaqua ‘to suffer from asthma.’ Z has an intransitive form based on IHĪYŌTZACU(I) meaning ‘to close.’ See IHĪYŌ-TL, TZACU(A).

(I)HYŌTZACU(I) See IHĪYŌTZACU(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 98–99.