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pozahuaya.

Headword: 
pozahuaya.
Principal English Translation: 

to swell, to become inflamed (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
pozāhuaya
IPAspelling: 
posɑːwɑyɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

POZĀHUAYA to swell, to become inflamed / se hincha ... inflama (Z) [(3)Zp.68,71,183]. See POZĀHU(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 204.

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