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queloa.

Headword: 
queloa.
Principal English Translation: 

to do something on purpose (with īc or çan īc); also, may have the meaning of "to laugh at, cheat, or fool"
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 231.

may also have the meaning of "to laught at, cheat, or fool"

IPAspelling: 
keloɑ
Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

nic. In the passage from Laso de la Vega, however, it may have the same meaning as nicquehqueloa, to laugh at, cheat, fool. Class 3: ōnicqueloh. 231

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents queloa in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

themes: 
Humor