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ixchicahuac.

Headword: 
ixchicahuac.
Principal English Translation: 

someone compelling, hypnotic (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
īxchicāhuac
IPAspelling: 
iːʃtʃikɑːwɑk
Frances Karttunen: 

ĪXCHICĀHUAC someone compelling, hypnotic / hipnótico (Z) [(2)Zp.68, 163]. Z’s gloss is not tle literal sense implied by the verb, which would be ‘someone brave, dauntless.’ See ĪXCHICĀHU(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 111.

themes: 
Behavior, Personality