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cuacualaca.

Headword: 
cuacualaca.
Principal English Translation: 

to make a thundering sound or a sound like water boiling in a pot or boiling over (see Karttunen) (an onomatopoetic word)

IPAspelling: 
kwɑkwɑlɑkɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

CUACUALACA to make a thundering sound or a sound like water boiling in a pot or boiling over / tronar o hacer ruido lo que hierve en la olla a borbollones (M) [(1)Cf.74v]. See CUALĀN(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 56.

themes: 
Sensory Perception (sound, smell, etc.)
Water