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matzolcui.

Headword: 
matzolcui.
Principal English Translation: 

to seize something with the hands, talons (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
mahtzolcui
IPAspelling: 
mɑhtsolkwi
Frances Karttunen: 

MAHTZOLCUI vt to seize something with the hands, talons / lo agarra con la manos, con las uñas (T) [(3)Tp.189]. M has matzoloa ‘to take a handful of something.’ See MĀ(I)-TL, CUI.

MAHTZOLCUILIĀ applic. MAHTZOLCUI.

MAHTZOLCUĪHUA nonact. MAHTZOLCUI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 132.