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huetzquitia.

Headword: 
huetzquitia.
Orthographic Variants: 
uetzquitia
IPAspelling: 
wetskiːtiɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

uetzquitia. nite. (pret. oniteuetzquiti.) hazer reir a otro, o hazer algo por donde se rian de mi.
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.

Frances Karttunen: 

HUETZQUĪTIĀ vt to make someone laugh / hacer reír a otro o hacer algo por donde se rían de mí (M) [(1)Cf.71v,(3)Tp.126]. altern. caus. HUETZCA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 87.

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