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tzitzilica.

Headword: 
tzitzilica.
Principal English Translation: 

for coins to ring while they are being counted (see Molina); for something go jingle (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
tsitsilikɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

tzitzilica. (pret. otzitzilicac.) sonar los reales o la moneda, quando la cuentan.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 153r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TZITZILICA for something to jingle / sonar los reales o la moneda cuando la cuentan (M), el ruido que hacen las campanas cuando las repican (C) [(3)Cf.74r,77r]. See TZILĪN(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 315.

themes: 
Money, Coins, Wealth