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cuacualatza.

Headword: 
cuacualatza.
Principal English Translation: 

to cause something to make a thundering sound or a sound like water boiling over (see Karttunen) (an onomatopoetic word)

IPAspelling: 
kwɑkwɑlɑtsɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

CUACUALATZ(A) vt to cause something to make a thundering sound or a sound like water boiling over / levantar semejante ruido (C referring back to CUACUALACA) [(1)Cf.74v]. According to C this item was little used. See CUALĀN(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 57.

themes: 
Sensory Perception (sound, smell, etc.)
Water