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huelitta.

Headword: 
huelitta.
Principal English Translation: 

to enjoy oneself; to find something pleasing and good, to approve of something (see Karttunen and Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
uelitta
IPAspelling: 
welittɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

uelitta. nitla. (pret. onitlauelittac.) agradarme y parecerme bien alguna cosa.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 156r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

HUELITTA vrefl,vt to enjoy oneself; to find something pleasing and good, to approve of something / se goza, se regocija (Z), agrandarme y parecerme bien alguna cosa (M for first pers. sg. subject) [(5)Zp.8,64,107,169,188]. See HUEL, (I)TTA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 86.