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cualantli.

Headword: 
cualantli.
Principal English Translation: 

anger (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
qualantli, qualantly
Alonso de Molina: 

Qualantli. enojo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 84v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

CUALĀN-TLI anger / enojo (M) See CUALĀN(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 58.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

auh cuix yeh techpahtiz yntla peuaz cocolli qualantly ac quipahtiz = y acaso él (que llevó el chisme al virrey) podrá ponernos el remedio si empieza la cólera, la rabia? (s. XVI, Tlaxcala)
John Sullivan, "Construcción de dos enunciados colectivos en el Cabildo de Tlaxcala," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 32 (2001), 306.

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