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tlahuelcahua.

Headword: 
tlahuelcahua.
Principal English Translation: 

irrational with anger, blinded with anger

Orthographic Variants: 
tlauelcaua, tlauelcahua
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑweːlkɑːwɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

tlauelcaua. nino. (pret. oninotlauelcauh.) dexar de entender enlo que le es necessario, por estar enojado, o desesperar.) 71m2-144r. col. 2. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLAHUĒLCĀHU(A) vrefl, vt to be irrational with anger; to forsake something, someone in anger / dejar de entender en lo que le es necesario por estar enojado o desesperar (M), lo deja con coraje, lo abandona (T) [(3)Tp.206, (2)Zp.3,194]. See TLAHUĒL-LI, CĀHU(A).

TLAHUĒLCĀHUILIĀ applic. TLAHUĒLCĀHU(A).

TLAHUĒLCĀHUALŌ nonact. TLAHUĒLCĀHU(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 268.

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