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imatcachihua.

Headword: 
imatcachihua.
Principal English Translation: 

to make, do something carefully (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
ihmatcāchīhua
IPAspelling: 
ihmɑtkɑːtʃiːwɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

IHMATCĀCHĪHU(A) vt to make, do something carefully / hago con cordura (C for first pers. sg. subject) [(2)Cf.77v,(1)Rp.91]. One of the two attestations in C is unclear; apparently TC has been reversed. See IHMAT(I), CHĪHU(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 99.