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cacalania.

Headword: 
cacalania.
Principal English Translation: 

to beat, pound something (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cahcalāniā
IPAspelling: 
kɑhkɑlɑːniɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

CAHCALĀNIĀ vt to beat, pound something / golpea (Z) [(2)Zp.63,204]. See CALĀN(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 20.