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noncuaxeloa.

Headword: 
noncuaxeloa.
Principal English Translation: 

to be separated, set apart; to separate something, to set something apart (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
nōncuahxeloā
IPAspelling: 
noːnkwɑhʃeloɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

NŌNCUAHXELOĀ vrefl,vt to be separated, set apart; to separate something, to set something apart / se aparta, se separa (T), lo aparta, lo separa (T) [(6)Tp.154,193]. In the attestations in T the final glottal stop of the first element is missing. See NŌNCUAH, XELOĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 174.