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cecui.

Headword: 
cecui.
Principal English Translation: 

to be cold (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
sekwi
Alonso de Molina: 

cecui. ni. (pret. onicecu.) tener frio.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 15v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

CECU(I) pret: CEUC ~CEC to be cold; to have chills / tener frio (M) According to M, /K027/ the preterit of this form loses the final vowel, but the resulting final consonant does not delabialize, yielding CEUC, but T gives as the preterit of CECU(I) a reduplicated form CEHCEC with delabialization. See CE-TL, CUI. CECUĪTIĀ caus. CECU(I). CEHCECU(I) redup. CECU(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 28.

IDIEZ morfema: 
cecui.
IDIEZ traduc. inglés: 
root of CĒCECUI y CECUILIZTLI. for s.o. to be cold.
IDIEZ def. náhuatl: 
CĒCECUI huan CECUILIZTLI iyollo. Macehualli, tecuani zo tlapiyalli huihuitoca pampa tlaceceya [Mc. 15v].
IDIEZ morfología: 
cetl, cui.
IDIEZ gramática: 
tlach2.