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macuauhtilia.

Headword: 
macuauhtilia.
Principal English Translation: 

to tire out someone’s arms (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
mācuauhtiliā
IPAspelling: 
mɑːkwɑwtiliɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

MĀCUAUHTILIĀ vt to tire out someone’s arms / le cansa las manos (T) [(4)Tp. 164, 191]. applic. MĀCUAUHTI.

MĀCUAUHTILILIĀ applic. MĀCUAUHTILIĀ .

MĀCUAUHTILĪLŌ nonact. MĀCUAUHTILIĀ .
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 129.