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ahuatzetzeloa.

Headword: 
ahuatzetzeloa.
Principal English Translation: 

to jerk, shake, beat someone's head (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
āhuatzetzeloā
IPAspelling: 
ɑːwɑtsetseloɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

ĀHUATZETZELOĀ vt to jerk, shake, beat someone´s head / sacude su mollera (T)[(3)Tp.117]. This involves the less common ´crown of the head´ sense of Ā-TL. See Ā-TL, TZETZELOĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 8.