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ixmixtlachiya.

Headword: 
ixmixtlachiya.
Principal English Translation: 

to have cataracts, for one’s vision to be clouded (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
īxmixtlachiya
IPAspelling: 
iːʃmiʃtɬɑtʃiyɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

ĪXMIXTLACHIY(A) to have cataracts, for one’s vision to be clouded / catarata (Z) [(2)Zp.26,163]. In one of the attestations the final vowel is missing, and in the other the vowel of the second syllable is marked long. See ĪX-TLI, MIX-TLI, TLACHIY(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 116..