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acachtopahuia.

Headword: 
acachtopahuia.
Principal English Translation: 

to be the first to do something (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
acachtopahuiā
IPAspelling: 
ɑkɑtʃtopɑwiɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

ACACHTOPAHUIĀ to be the first to do something / soy el primero que hago algo (C for first pers. sg.) See ACHTOPA, -HUIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 1.