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palchichina.

Headword: 
palchichina.
Principal English Translation: 

to suck something in, to inhale (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
pālchichīna
IPAspelling: 
pɑːltʃitʃiːnɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

PĀLCHICHĪN(A) vt to suck something in, to inhale / lo chupa (T) [(3)Tp.199]. See CHICHĪN(A).

PĀLCHICHĪNILIĀ applic. PĀLCHICHĪN(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 185.