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matlaxcaloa.

Headword: 
matlaxcaloa.
Principal English Translation: 

to applaud (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
mātlaxcaloā
IPAspelling: 
mɑːtɬɑʃkɑloɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

MĀTLAXCALOĀ vrefl to applaud / aplaude (T) [(3)Tp. 153, (2)]Zp. 12, 171 ]. The literal sense of this is to slap one’s hands together as in making tortillas. M has the reduplicated form matlatlaxcaloa with the same sense. See MA(I)-TL, TLAXCAL-LI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 139.