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paquiltia.

Headword: 
paquiltia.
Principal English Translation: 

to make someone happy, to give someone pleasure

IPAspelling: 
pɑːkiltiɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

paquiltia. nite. (pret. onitepaquilti.) lo mesmo es que papaquiltia.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 80r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

PĀQUILTIĀ vt to make someone happy, to give someone pleasure / alegrar a otro (M), le alegro (C for first pers. sg. subject) [(1)Bf.Ir,(1)Cf.71V,(1)Rp.33]. M gives this as synonymous with papaquiltia, which is only to be found in the Spanish-to-Nahuatl side of the dictionary. altern. caus. PÁQU(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 188.

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