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ixmapilxixili.

Headword: 
ixmapilxixili.
Principal English Translation: 

to keep stabbing a finger in someone's face

James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 222.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

niqu. ad hoc construction. Class 2: ōniquīxmahpilxixil. īxtli, mahpilli, xixli to make a repeated stabbing or pounding motion. Vowel quantities are not known with xixli, and it may have a glottal stop after the first i; ihxili (quantity of the second i unknown) is the basic verb to stab. 222