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quequelhuia.

Headword: 
quequelhuia.
Principal English Translation: 

to tease, ridicule someone (See Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
quehquelhuiā, quequelhuia
IPAspelling: 
kehkelwiɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

quequelhuia. nitetla. (pret. onitetlaquequelhui.) burlar, o escarnecer de alguno.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 89r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

QUEHQUELHUIĀ vt to tease, ridicule someone / burlar, o escarnecer de alguno (M) [(1)Tp.200]. See QUEHQUELOĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 208.

themes: 
Humor