C / CH

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for snakes, fish and some other insects to writhe when s.o. tries to grab them; fish writhe when they are hooked or placed on land.
# se mueve pescado cuando lo agarra alguien. “ese pescado se mueve fuerte porque esta arriba del agua”.
kwekwetɬɑtsɑ

to brandish a lance or something similar (see Molina)

kwekwetɬɑʃiwilistɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
cuecuetlaxiuiliztli

a swoon or a fainting fit (see Molina)

kwekwetɬɑʃiwini
Orthographic Variants: 
cuecuetlaxiuini

one who is swooning or fainting

kwekwetɬɑʃoɑ

to faint, flag

James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 216.

kweːkwetɬɑʃtik
Orthographic Variants: 
cuēcuetlaxtic

something flexible (see Karttunen)

kwekwets

mischievous and shameless (see Molina)

one who meanders; or, a manuscript copy (see attestations)

kwekwetsoɑ

to stir or move something about (transitive); or, to move or stir oneself (see Molina)

kwekwetsokɑ

to have an itch on one's body (see Molina)

kwekwetsokilistɬi

a bodily itch (see Molina)

a person's name (attested as male) (Tepetlaoztoc, mid-sixteenth century)
Barbara J. Williams and H. R. Harvey, The Códice de Santa María Asunción: Facsimile and Commentary: Households and Lands in Sixteenth-Century Tepetlaoztoc (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1997), 83.

flabby (see Sahagún attestations)

a cord or rope decorated with stone beads
Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, citing A. Wimmer 2004, "Corde ornée de perles de pierre," https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/cuecuextli

frogs (see Molina)

shining, sparkling, shimmering, glistening (see attestations)

to barely make out the form of s.t. or s.o.
A. ti. una persona, animal domestico y silvestre se vé un poco su cuerpo donde biene. “Martín cuando venía caminando se veia su camisa blanco”. B. se vé un poco
kwekwejokɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
cuecueioca

to shine brightly or sparkle; or, to swarm, seethe, boil with lice, fleas, worms, ants, people in the market, or fish in the water (see Molina); note the seeming relationship between shining brightly and things that move (SW)

earring(s) (see Molina)