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pepetlaquiliztli.

Headword: 
pepetlaquiliztli.
Principal English Translation: 

a shimmer, a gleam (noun)

IPAspelling: 
pepetɬɑkilistɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

pepetlaquiliztli. resplandor tal.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 80v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

PEPETLAQUILIZ-TLI shimmer, gleam / resplandor (M) [(1)Rp.121]. See PEPETLACA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 191.