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hualquiza.

Headword: 
hualquiza.
Principal English Translation: 

to come out in this direction; come from; emerge; come from some place (see Molina and Karttunen); to be finished; go out; get out (of jail) (SW)

Orthographic Variants: 
ualquiza, ualquiça
IPAspelling: 
wɑːlkiːsɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

ualquiza. ni. (pret. oniualquiz.) salir delo profundo del agua assi o salir haziaca.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 154v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

ualquiza. ni. (pret. oniualquiz.) idem. o salir haziaca.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, f. 154v.

Frances Karttunen: 

HUĀLQUĪZ(A) to emerge, to come hither out of some place / salir de lo profundo del agua así (M), salir hacia acá (M) [(3)Cf.20r,101r,106r]. See HUĀL-, QUĪZ(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 81.

Attestations from sources in English: 

"10 tochtli 1554 ... yn quilpi yyomilhuiyoc ycempualliōmacuiloc yn valquiz ... (f. 7v)" = "10 Rabbit (year) 1554 ... He was locked up on the 2nd day (of the months) and was released on the 25th (da)y ... "
Frances Krug, "The Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Region," ch. 4, p. 48, Ph.D. Dissertation draft written in the 1980s, with transcriptions and translations approved by James Lockhart. Cited here by SW.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

yc 6 callitic valquizque padreme = en total salieron 6 padres del interior del edificio (ca. 1582, México)
Luis Reyes García, ¿Como te confundes? ¿Acaso no somos conquistados? Anales de Juan Bautista (México: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, Biblioteca Lorenzo Boturini Insigne y Nacional Basílica de Guadalupe, 2001), 142–143.