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.