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xillancua.

Headword: 
xillancua.
Principal English Translation: 

for the stomach to growl (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
xillāncuā
IPAspelling: 
ʃillɑːnkwɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

XILLĀNCUĀ vt; pret: -CUAH for the stomach to growl / gruñe la barriga (T) [(1)Tp.216]. See XILLĀN-TLI, CUĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 324.