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tentzonquixtia.

Headword: 
tentzonquixtia.
Principal English Translation: 

to shave one's beard (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tēntzonquīxtiā
IPAspelling: 
teːntsonkiːʃtiɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

TĒNTZONQUĪXTIĀ vrefl to shave one's beard / se afeita, se rasura (Z) [(3)Zp.6,105,174]. M has tentzonquica 'to be growing out one's beard, to be unshaven.' One of the three attestations is prefixed with TLA- instead of a reflexive prefix. See TĒNTZON-TLI, QUĪXTIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 226.

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