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quiquici.

Headword: 
quiquici.
Principal English Translation: 

to whistle, to hiss (See Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
kikisi
Frances Karttunen: 

QUIQUIC(I) pret: QUIQUIZ to whistle, to hiss / chifla, silba (Z) [(3)Zp.38,116,193,(1)Rp.28,(3)Xp.92]. The vowel of the second syllable is marked long in X and in one attestation in Z. This is synonymous with TLANQUIQUIC(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 212.