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arcochihua.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
arcochihua.
Principal English Translation: 

to make a ceremonial arch

Attestations from sources in English: 

Nechnahuatihqueh ma niarcohchihua tlaixpan pampa zan niitztoc (Sullivan et al. 2016: 29). =They had me make the ceremonial arch for the altar because I was just sitting around. [vocabulary (TCV); time range: 2016]
Loans in Colonial and Modern Nahuatl, eds. Agnieszka Brylak, Julia Madajczak, Justyna Olko, and John Sullivan, Trends in Linguistics Documentation 35 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020), 85.