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huilantihuetzi.

Headword: 
huilantihuetzi.
Principal English Translation: 

to snatch someone, something (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
huilāntihuetzi
IPAspelling: 
wilɑːntiwetsi
Frances Karttunen: 

HUILĀNTIHUETZ(I) vt to snatch someone, something / arrebatar (K) [(1)Cf.100v]. See HUILĀN(A), HUETZ(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 89.