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huilohuatz.

Headword: 
huilohuatz.
Principal English Translation: 

special honorific form to come (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
huīlohuatz
IPAspelling: 
wiːlowɑts
Frances Karttunen: 

HUĪLOHUATZ special honorific form to come / viene (T) [(2)Tp.128]. This is only attested in T. The plural is formed by reduplication, HUIHUĪLOHUATZ. This appears to be related to HUĪTZ ‘to come.’ See HUĪLOHUA.

HUIHUĪLOHUATZ redup. HUĪLOHUATZ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 90.