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cualitta.

Headword: 
cualitta.
Principal English Translation: 

to be pleased with something (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
qualitta
IPAspelling: 
kwɑlittɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

CUALITTA vt to be pleased with something / parecerme bien, o agradarme alguna persona (M for first pers. sg. subject), le gusta, le agrada, le parece, le tiene cariño (T) See CUAL-LI, (I)TTA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 59.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

in oc cenca quiqualittazque = que mucho se acepte (Cuauhtinchan, Puebla, s. XVI)
Luis Reyes García, "Ordenanzas para el gobierno de Cuauhtinchan, año de 1559," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 10 (1972), 256–257.

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