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ixxacualoa.

Headword: 
ixxacualoa.
Principal English Translation: 

to rub one’s eyes; to scrub, rub, scour something (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
īxxacualoā
IPAspelling: 
iːʃʃɑkwɑloɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

ĪXXACUALOĀ vrefl,vt to rub one’s eyes; to scrub, rub, scour something / refriega los ojos (T), lo riestrega, lo friega, lo frota (Z) ((3)Tp.143,(4)Zp.71,109,199). T gives this with an internal glottal stop ĪXAHCUALOĀ, but elsewhere in TZACUALOĀ appears without a glottal stop. The XX sequence is reduced to X in T and Z. See ĪX-TLI, XACUALOĀ.

ĪXXACUALŌLŌ nonact. ĪXXACUALOĀ
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 122.

themes: 
Cleanliness, Orderliness (or lack of)