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hueilia.

Headword: 
hueilia.
Orthographic Variants: 
ueilia
IPAspelling: 
weːiliɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

ueilia. nino. (pret. oninoueili.)
estimarse, engrandecerse o ensoberuecerse
ueilia. nitla. (pret. onitlaueili.)
hazer mayor lo pequeño, o alargar y añadir o embidar en juego
ueilia. nite. (pret. oniteueili.)
engrandecer a otro
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 155v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

HUĒILIĀ vrefl,vt to aggrandize oneself or someone else; to enlarge, augment something, to start bidding in a game of chance / estimarse, engrandecerse o ensoberbecerse (M), engrandecer a otro (M), hacer mayor lo pequeño o alargar y añadir o envidar en juego (M) See HUĒ(I).

HUĒILILIĀ applic. HUĒILIĀ

HUĒILĪLŌ nonact. HUĒILIĀ
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 85.