Search Issues: Update 2026-09-16 - Repairs to some of our search pages are ongoing. Thank you for your continued patience!

Meanwhile, elements of the Advanced Search are working and the Alphabetical Listings are working, too.

huellamachtia.

Headword: 
huellamachtia.
Principal English Translation: 

to please someone (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
huellamachtiā, uellamachtia
IPAspelling: 
wellɑmɑtʃtiɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

uellamachtia. nite. (pret. oniteuellamachti.) dar contentamiento y plazer a otro.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 156r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

HUELLAMACHTIĀ vt to please someone / dar contentamiento a otro (M) [(3)Bf.2r,5v,6r]. See HUEL, TLAMACHTIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 87.

themes: 
Emotions