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huehuetzcaliztli.

Headword: 
huehuetzcaliztli.
Principal English Translation: 

guffaw (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
huēhuetzcaliztli
IPAspelling: 
weːwetskɑlistɬi
Frances Karttunen: 

HUĒHUETZCALIZ-TLI guffaw / carcajada (Z) [(2)Zp.25,140]. This suggests that M’s veuetzca, glossed in Spanish as dar carcajadas de risa, is HUĒHUETZCA. Z marks the vowel of the third syllable long, but it should not be. See HUETZCA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 85.

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See also: 
huehuetzca.
huetzca.