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huehuetzca.

Headword: 
huehuetzca.
Principal English Translation: 

to laugh (in peals)

James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 218.

Orthographic Variants: 
ueuetzca
IPAspelling: 
wehwetskɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

ueuetzca. ni. (pret. oniueuetzcac.) dar carcajadas de risa
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 157r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

ni. Class 1. ōnihuehuetzcac. reduplicated forms of huetzca.
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 218.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Zan niman ica ohuehuetzcaya milpixque. = Se estuvieron riendo del milpero. (s. XX, Milpa Alta)
Los cuentos en náhuatl de Doña Luz Jiménez, recop. Fernando Horcasitas y Sarah O. de Ford (México: UNAM, 1979), 32–33.

themes: 
Emotions
Humor
See also: 
huetzca.
huehuetzcaliztli.