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mazolhuia.

Headword: 
mazolhuia.
Principal English Translation: 

to make gestures while talking to someone (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
māzolhuiā
IPAspelling: 
mɑːsolwiɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

MĀZOLHUIĀ vt to make gestures while talking to someone / habla agitando las manos enfrente de otra persona (Z) [(1)Zp. 189]. This appears to have the literal sense ‘to wear someone out with gesturing,’ and Z has what seems to be a secondary derived form MĀZOL ‘someone who goes about touching things.’ See MĀ(I)-TL, ZOLOĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 142.

themes: 
Speech, Speaking, Oral Tradition