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huihuixalhuia.

Headword: 
huihuixalhuia.
Principal English Translation: 

to shake, wiggle, or rock someone or something (see Molina and Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
uiuixalhuia
IPAspelling: 
wiwiʃɑlwiɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

uiuixalhuia. nitetla. (pret. onitetlauiuixalhui.) sacudir, o menear o mecer algo a otro.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 158r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

HUIHUIXALHUIĀ applic. HUIHUIXOĀ

HUIHUIXOĀ vt to shake or rock someone or something / sacudir o menear el árbol, o mecer la cuna al niño, o menear al que duerme porque despierte, o prender por pena (M) [(3)Tp.178].
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 89.

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