a handicapped person; one who drags himself around (see Karttunen)
IPAspelling:
welɑtsin
Frances Karttunen:
HUELATZIN cripple, one who drags himself around / cojo, uno que no puede andar, no más se arrastra (T) [(4)Tp.110,111]. This is derived from HUILĀN(A). T has E for I and LA for LĀN. See HUILĀN-TLI. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 86.