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quiquizoa.

Headword: 
quiquizoa.
Principal English Translation: 

to play a trumpet (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
kikisoɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

quiquizoa. ni. (pret. oniquiquizo.) tocar, o tañer trompeta.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 90r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

quiquizoa (verb) = to ring bells
Daniel Garrison Brinton, Ancient Nahuatl Poetry: Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems (1877), 162.