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omactia.

Headword: 
omactia.
Principal English Translation: 

to guide someone, to show someone the way (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
ohmactiā
IPAspelling: 
ohmɑktiɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

OHMACTIĀ vt to guide someone, to show someone the way / lo encamina (Z) [(1)Zp.191]. The single attestation of this has a long vowel in the second syllable, but this is undoubtedly the causative form of OHMACA. See OHMACA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 177.