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melauhcapohua.

Headword: 
melauhcapohua.
Principal English Translation: 

to relate, declare, explicate something (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
melāuhcāpōhua
IPAspelling: 
melɑːwkɑːpoːwɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

MELĀUHCĀPŌHU(A) vt to relate, declare, explicate something / narrar, exponer algo fielmente, exactamente (S), lo afirma, lo declara, lo explica, testifica (T) [(3)Tp. 190]. See MELĀHU(A), PŌHU(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 143.

themes: 
Speech, Speaking, Oral Tradition