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.