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pacualtia.

Headword: 
pacualtia.
Principal English Translation: 

to take poison, to poison someone (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
pahcualtiā
IPAspelling: 
pɑhkwɑltiɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

PAHCUALTIĀ vrefl,vt to take poison, to poison someone / se envenena (T), lo envenena (T) [(6)Tp.155,195]. See PAH-TLI, CUALTIĀ.

PAHCUALTILIĀ applic. PAHCUALTIĀ.

PAHCUALTĪLŌ nonact. PAHCUALTIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 183.

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