for something (such as rheumatism) to cause someone pain (see Karttunen)
Orthographic Variants:
cuahcua
IPAspelling:
kwɑhkwɑ
Frances Karttunen:
CUAHCUA vt; pret: CUAHCUAC for something (such as rheumatism) to cause someone pain / le duele (T) [(3)Tp.182]. This appears nearly synonymous with CUAHCUĀ in the sense of causing a gnawing pain, but this item has a short vowel in the last syllable, and the preterit is distinct from that of CUĀ.
CUAHCUALTIĀ caus. CUAHCUA Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 57.