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tlahuetzquitia.

Headword: 
tlahuetzquitia.
Principal English Translation: 

to make people laugh, to entertain people, or to make fun of oneself (see Molina and Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlauetzquitia
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑwetskiːtiɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

tlauetzquitia. nite. (pret. onitetlauetzquiti.) dezir donayres y gracias para hazer reyr a otros, o hazer cosa por donde se rian de mi.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 144v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLAHUETZQUĪTIĀ vt to entertain someone / decir donaires y gracias para hacer reír a otros, o hacer cosa por donde se rían de mi (M) [(2)Zp.39,206]. In Z this appears as an intransitive verb with fused TLA-. See HUETZQUĪTIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 269.