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huexcaitoa.

Headword: 
huexcaitoa.
Principal English Translation: 

to speak badly, to curse

Orthographic Variants: 
uexcaitoa, huexcaihtoa
IPAspelling: 
weʃkɑihtoɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

uexcaitoa. nite. (pret. oniteuexcaito.) ofrecer al malo a alguno, o darlo a la yra de dios, maldiziendo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 157r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

huexcaihtoa = malhablar, maldecir
Nelson Yolohmazatl, grupo "Nahuatl," Facebook, 3 sept 2013.

themes: 
Speech, Speaking, Oral Tradition