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ixhuetzca.

Headword: 
ixhuetzca.
Principal English Translation: 

to smile

IPAspelling: 
iːʃwetskɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

ĪXHUETZCA to smile, to gesture laughingly / sonreírse o hacer gestos con risa (M) [(1)Tp.135, (2)Zp.117,164]. T also has reduplicated ĪXHUĒHUETZCA. See ĪX-TLI, HUETZCA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 113.

Attestations from sources in English: 

auic yauh ixhuetzcatinemi = she goes around smiling (late sixteenth century, Central Mexico)
Louise M. Burkhart, Before Guadalupe: The Virgin Mary in Early Colonial Nahuatl Literature, Institute for Mesoamerican Studies Monograph 13 (Albany: University at Albany, 2001), 48.

IDIEZ morfema: 
īxhuetzca.
IDIEZ traduc. inglés: 
to smile.
IDIEZ def. náhuatl: 
ni. Macehualli neci iixco yolpactoc. “Quemman nictlachilia Julieta zan ixhuetzca pampa pinahua. ”
IDIEZ def. español: 
# Persona se ve cuando contenta en su cara cuando ve a otra persona. “cuando veo a Julieta nada mas se ríe porque tiene pena.”
IDIEZ morfología: 
īxtli, huetzca.
IDIEZ gramática: 
tlach1.
themes: 
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