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to call s.o. with a whistle.
# nic. Un hombre chifla fuerte con sus labios y su boca porque le habla a alguien. “Carlos cuando va a la milpa con su hijo trabajan de lejos y cuando se hablan nada más se chiflan”.

stalks (as on some maguey plants); taken into Spanish as "quiyotes" Caterina Pizzigoni, ed., Testaments of Toluca (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2007), 110, n2.

kikiːsɑ

to go by (see Molina)

1. for a person or animal to exit an enclosure, after all. 2. to leave home and go elsewhere in search of one’s future, after all. 3. for a person to quit a job or not finish school, after all.
kikisoɑ

to play a trumpet (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
qujquiztic

like a passageway

(sixteenth century, central Mexico)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 132.

kikistɬi

conch shell trumpet (see Karttunen and Molina); conch horn (see attestations)

kitelmɑti

someone competent (See Karttunen)

it is said that...

one who guards things

Orthographic Variants: 
quitlatia ytlauelilocayo

a person's name (attested male)