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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.