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cahuix.

Headword: 
cahuix.
Principal English Translation: 

osprey (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cahuīx
IPAspelling: 
kɑwiːʃ
Frances Karttunen: 

CAHUĪX-IN pl: -MEH osprey / quebrantahueso, aura (T) [(1)Tp.112]. In Campeche CAHUĪX without the absolutive suffix is used as the name for the female grackle. See CUĪX-IN.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 21.