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pepehualtia.

Headword: 
pepehualtia.
Orthographic Variants: 
pepeualtia
IPAspelling: 
peːpeːwɑltiɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

pepeualtia. nite. (pret. onitepepeualti.) prouocar a saña a otro.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 80v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

PĒPĒHUALTIĀ vt to offend, injure someone / provocar a saña a otro (M), lo ofende (T), lo injuria (T) [(4)Tp.197]. The sense of this reduplicated form is at some distance from the sense of unreduplicated PĒHUALTIĀ 'to initiate something.' redup. PĒHUALTIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 191.