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ahuilmaca.

Headword: 
ahuilmaca.
Principal English Translation: 

to entertain someone (see Karttunen); give joy

Orthographic Variants: 
āhuilmaca
IPAspelling: 
ɑːwilmɑkɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

ĀHUILMACA vt to entertain someone / le complace (un niño) (Z)[(1)Zp.184]. See ĀHUIY(A), MACA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 8.

themes: 
Emotions