quequeloa.

Headword: 
quequeloa.
Principal English Translation: 

to tease, mock, ridicule someone (See Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
quehqueloā
IPAspelling: 
kehkeloɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

quequeloa. nite. (pret. onitequequelo.) hazer coxquillas a otro, o escarnecer y burlar 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: 

QUEHQUELOĀ vt to tease, mock, ridicule someone / hacer cosquillas a otro, o escarnecer y burla a alguno (M) T lacks a glottal stop in the first syllable, and it is only present in some of Z's attestations of QUEHQUELOĀ and its derivations. See QUEHQUEL-LI.

QUEHQUELŌLŌ nonact. QUEHQUELOĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 208.

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