huihuixtilia. | Nahuatl Dictionary

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Headword:

huihuixtilia.

Principal English Translation:

to weaken someone (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants:

huihhuīxtiliā

IPAspelling:

wihwiːʃtiliɑː

Frances Karttunen:

HUIHHUĪXTILIĀ vt to weaken someone / lo debilita (Z) [(2)Zp.40,188]. M has viuixcatilia ‘to weaken someone so that he staggers’. The Z form seems to be the same verb with one syllable elided. See HUIHHUITŌN(I), HUIHUIXCA, HUĪHUĪCA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 89.