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acui.

Headword: 
acui.
Principal English Translation: 

to swim; to go get water

IPAspelling: 
ɑːkwi
Frances Karttunen: 

ĀCUI pret: -C to swim / nada (de nadar) (Z)[(1)Zp.140]. Z has the reflex of AH rather than Ā-TL, but the sense demands the latter. See Ā-TL, CUI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 3.

Attestations from sources in English: 

We also see "nicamati niahquiz" for "I know how to swim" in Eastern Huastecan Nahuatl. See the IDIEZ instructional video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNC0LfZG3uY&feature=youtu.be.

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