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mahuiltiliztli.

Headword: 
mahuiltiliztli.
Principal English Translation: 

play, game (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
māhuiltiliztli
IPAspelling: 
mɑːwiltilistɬi
Frances Karttunen: 

MĀHUILTILIZ-TLI play, game / juego (Z) [(2)Zp.74,165]. By general derivational processes this should be MEĀHUILTILIZ-TLI, which is the form to be found in M. See ĀHUILTIĀ .
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 132.