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ellelquixtia.

Headword: 
ellelquixtia.
Principal English Translation: 

to relax, to enjoy oneself; to entertain someone, to make someone relax (see Molina and Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
eːllelkiːʃtiɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

ellelquixtia. nin. (pret. oninellelquixti.) recrearse.
ellelquixtia. nite. (pret. oniteellelquixti.) recrear a otro.
ellelquixtia tetechnin. tetech oninellelquixti. quebrar el enojo en otro.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 28v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

ĒLLELQUĪXTIĀ vrefl,vt to relax, to enjoy oneself; to entertain someone, make someone relax / recrearse (M), recrear a otro (M) caus. ĒLLELQUĪZ(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 77.

Attestations from sources in English: 

ellelquixtia (verb) = to cause joy, to make glad Daniel Garrison Brinton, Ancient Nahuatl Poetry: Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems (1887), 153.

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