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tetexoa.

Headword: 
tetexoa.
Principal English Translation: 

to gnaw, chew something (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tetexoā
IPAspelling: 
teteʃoɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

TETEXOĀ vt to gnaw, chew something / lo roe, lo masca (el pie, la mano, etc.) (T) [(1)Tp.205]. Possibly T has lost a glottal stop, and this should be TEHTEXOĀ. See TEC(I).

TETEXILHUIĀ applic. TETEXOĀ.

TETEXŌLŌ nonact. TETEXOĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 234.

themes: 
Food, Eating, Cooking