to jerk, shake, beat someone's head (see Karttunen)
Orthographic Variants:
āhuatilāna
IPAspelling:
ɑːwɑtilɑːnɑ
Frances Karttunen:
ĀHUATILĀN(A) vt to jerk, shake, beat someone´s head / sacude su mollera (T)[(3)Tp.117]. This involves the less common ´crown of the head´ sense of Ā-TL. See Ā-TL, TILĀN(A). Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 8.