for someone’s breathing to be cut off (see Karttunen)
Orthographic Variants:
yōltzacuīztli
IPAspelling:
yoːltsɑkwiːstɬi
Frances Karttunen:
YŌLTZACUĪZ-TLI for someone’s breathing to be cut off / su resuello se le cierra (Z) [(1)Zp.232]. The second element of this is a contraction of *TZACUILIZ-TLI < TZACUILĪA ‘to impede something.’ See YŌL-LI, TZACU(A). Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 344.