to make a thundering sound or a sound like water boiling in a pot or boiling over (see Karttunen) (an onomatopoetic word)
IPAspelling:
kwɑkwɑlɑkɑ
Frances Karttunen:
CUACUALACA to make a thundering sound or a sound like water boiling in a pot or boiling over / tronar o hacer ruido lo que hierve en la olla a borbollones (M) [(1)Cf.74v]. See CUALĀN(I). Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 56.