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ixtememetztic.

Headword: 
ixtememetztic.
Principal English Translation: 

someone who goes about looking angry (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
īxtemehmētztic
IPAspelling: 
iːʃtemehmeːtstik
Frances Karttunen: 

ĪXTEMEHMĒTZTIC someone who goes about looking angry / uno que anda con la cara como enojada (T), [(1)Tp.137]. The second element is opaque. Possibly it has to do with MĒTZ-TLI ‘moon.’ See ĪXTE-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 119.

themes: 
Emotions