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ixcuahuia.

Headword: 
ixcuahuia.
Principal English Translation: 

to cut the heads of grain with a sickle; to carry something with a tumpline across the forehead (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
īxcuāhuiā
IPAspelling: 
iːʃkwɑːwiɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

ĪXCUĀHUIĀ vt to cut the heads of grain with a sickle; to carry something with a tumpline across the forehead / arrasar trigo o cosa semejante (M), lo carga en la frente (T) [(3)Tp.215]. See ĪXCUĀ(I)-TL, -HUIĀ

ĪXCUĀHUILIĀ applic. ĪXCUĀHUIĀ

ĪXCUĀHUĪLŌ nonact. ĪXCUĀHUIĀ
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 112.