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nacacua.

Headword: 
nacacua.
Principal English Translation: 

to eat flesh (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
nacacuā
IPAspelling: 
nɑkɑkwɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

NACACUĀ to eat flesh / comer carne (K) [(1)Cf.98r]. M has nacaqualizpan ‘period during which one may eat meat,’ i.e., a nonfast day. See NAC(A)-TL, CUĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 155.

themes: 
Food, Eating, Cooking