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huelatzin.

Headword: 
huelatzin.
Principal English Translation: 

a handicapped person; one who drags himself around (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
welɑtsin
Frances Karttunen: 

HUELATZIN cripple, one who drags himself around / cojo, uno que no puede andar, no más se arrastra (T) [(4)Tp.110,111]. This is derived from HUILĀN(A). T has E for I and LA for LĀN. See HUILĀN-TLI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 86.