for a mother to mutter to her child, the bread, or the like (?) (see Molina)
Orthographic Variants:
quaqualia
Alonso de Molina:
quaqualia. nic. (pret. onicquaquali.) maxcar la madre al niño pan, o cosa semejante. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 85r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.