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.