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cihuanacayo.

Headword: 
cihuanacayo.
Principal English Translation: 

a delicate man (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
ciuanacayo
Alonso de Molina: 

ciuanacayo. hombre delicado.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 22v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

–CIHUĀNACAYŌ. necessarily possessed form one's female genitals / vulva, vagina (S) [(I)CF.83r]. M has ciuanacayo 'weak, effeminate man,' which probably represents CIHUĀNACAYOH. S gives this with an absolutive suffix, but C has it only in possessed form. See CIHUĀ-TL, NAC(A)-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 34.

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