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papaquiltia.

Headword: 
papaquiltia.
Principal English Translation: 

to cause someone to be happy (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
pahpāquiltiā
IPAspelling: 
pɑhpɑːkiltiɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

PAHPĀQUILTIĀ vt to cause someone to be happy / alegro a otros (C for first pers. sg. subject) [(3)Cf.51r,(1)Rp.120]. caus. PAHPĀQU(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 184.

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