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tzitzilitza.

Headword: 
tzitzilitza.
Principal English Translation: 

to ring bells (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
tsitsilitsɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

tzitzilitza. nitla. (pret. onitlatzitzilitz.) repicar campanas.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 153r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TZITZILITZ(A) vt to ring bells / repicar campanas (M) [(1)Cf.74r]. See TZILĪN(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 315.