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pepetzoa.

Headword: 
pepetzoa.
Principal English Translation: 

to rid oneself entirely of something (See Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
pehpetzoā
IPAspelling: 
pehpetsoɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

PEHPETZOĀ vt to rid oneself entirely of something / lo quita todo (T) [(3)Tp.196]. As a reduplicated form of PETZOĀ 'to polish something, to make something shine/ this seems to arrive at its meaning in T by way of the sense of losing one's hair or shaving one's head and hence having a shiny bald pate. See PETZOĀ, PEHPETZTIC.

PEHPETZILHUIĀ applic. PEHPETZOĀ.

PEHPETZŌLŌ nonact. PEHPETZOĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 191.