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tomahui.

Headword: 
tomahui.
Principal English Translation: 

to grow fat, to swell (see Krattunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tomāhui
IPAspelling: 
tomɑːwi
Frances Karttunen: 

TOMĀHU(I) to grow fat, to swell / engorda (T) [(1)Tp.241]. This is synonymous with TOMĀHUA and the reflexive use of TOMĀHU(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 245.