tlancuitzahui.

Headword:

tlancuitzahui.

Principal English Translation:

to grimace (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling:

tɬɑnkwitsɑwi

Frances Karttunen:

TLANCUITZAHU(I) to grimace / hace gestos (T) [(3)Tp.233]. M has tlancuitzoa ‘for a dog to snarl and show its teeth’ and tlancuicuitztic ‘something toothy.’ See TLAN-TLI.

TLANCUITZALHUIĀ applic. TLANCUITZAHU(I).

TLANCUITZAHUĪHUA nonact. TLANCUITZAHU(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 284.