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huihuixca.

Headword: 
huihuixca.
Principal English Translation: 

to tremble or shake (see Molina and Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
uihuixca
IPAspelling: 
wiwiʃkɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

uiuixca. ni. (pret. oniuiuixcac.) temblar.
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: 

HUIHUIXCA to tremble, shake / temblar (M) [(3)Tp.110,(3)Zp.58,120,155]. See HUIHUIXOĀ.

HUIHUIXCALŌ nonact. HUIHUIXCA.

HUIHUIXCALTIA caus. HUIHUIXCA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 89.