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huihuicaltia.

Headword: 
huihuicaltia.
Principal English Translation: 

to curse, slander someone (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
huihhuīcaltiā
IPAspelling: 
wihwiːkɑltiɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

HUIHHUĪCALTIĀ vt to curse, slander someone / lo maldice (Z) [(2)Zp.80,188]. This is the causative form of unattested *HUIHHUĪCA, which in turn would be a reduplicated form of HUĪCA ‘to take, carry something.’ See TLAHUIHHUĪCALTIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 88.