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pohuilia.

Headword: 
pohuilia.
Principal English Translation: 

to count, to talk, to discourse; to count something, to discuss something, to report something to someone (See Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
pōhuiliā
IPAspelling: 
poːwiliɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

PŌHUILIĀ vrefl,vt to count, to talk, to discourse; to count something, to discuss something, to report something to someone / platica, cuenta (T), lo cuenta, lo platica, lo entera (T) This is abundantly attested but only in T. applic. PŌHU(A).

PŌHUILILIĀ applic. PŌHUILIĀ.

PŌHUILĪLŌ nonact. PŌHUILIĀ -PŌL derogative compounding element implying large size, great degree; pl: -POPŌL acrecienta la significación in malam partem de ordinario (C) [(7)Cf.7r,8r,59v].
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 202.