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miccacahua.

Headword: 
miccacahua.
Principal English Translation: 

to faint (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
miccācāhua
IPAspelling: 
mikkɑːkɑːwɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

MICCĀCĀHU(A) vrefl to faint / se desmaya (Z) [(2)Zp.43, 171]. Z idiosyncratically raises the Ā to Ē. See MICCĀ-, CĀHU(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 145.

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