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quiquinatza.

Headword: 
quiquinatza.
IPAspelling: 
kikinɑtsɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

quiquinatza. nite. (pret. onitequiquinatz.) rifar el cauallo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 90r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

QUIQUINATZ(A) vt to make various grunting, squealing, buzzing sounds at someone / rifar el caballo (M), me gruñe el perro (C), lo platica (Z) See QUIQUINACA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 212.