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pohuani.

Headword: 
pohuani.
Principal English Translation: 

someone lofty, haughty, arrogant (See Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
pōhuani
IPAspelling: 
poːwɑni
Frances Karttunen: 

PŌHUANI pl: -MEH someone lofty, haughty, arrogant / soberbio (C) [(2)Cf.44r]. This belongs to a group of deverbal nouns derived from the customary present form of the verb. The verb in this sense is reflexive and retains a reflexive prefix corresponding to the person and number of the referent, although the plural also takes an absolutive (i.e., nonpossessed) plural suffix, MOPŌHUANI 'he is haughty’, TITOPŌHUANIMEH 'we are haughty' (Cf.44r). See PŌHU(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 202.