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mahuizzo.

Headword: 
mahuizzo.
Principal English Translation: 

someone who is the embodiment of honor (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
mahuizzoh
IPAspelling: 
mɑwissoh
Frances Karttunen: 

MAHUIZZOH someone who is the embodiment of honor / persona de honra (C) [(2)Cf. 54V,119r]. In one of the attestations, the ZY sequence of this derived form remains unassimilated. This also appears as MAHUIZOH, apparently by degemination. See MAHUIZ-TLI, -YOH.

MAHUIZYOH See MAHUIZZOH
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 133.