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ixpetlani.

Headword: 
ixpetlani.
Principal English Translation: 

to revive, sober up, return to one’s senses (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
īxpetlāni
IPAspelling: 
iːʃpetɬɑːni
Frances Karttunen: 

ĪXPETLĀN(I) to revive, sober up, return to one’s senses / vuelve, se le pasa la borrachera (Z) [(2)Zp.130,163]. M has transitive ixpetlania ‘to sprinkle something out of a cup or to scandalize people.’ See ĪX-TLI, PETLĀN(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 117.