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cuacuacuatimani.

Headword: 
cuacuacuatimani.
Principal English Translation: 

for things to be scraping against each other (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cuahcuacuahtimani
IPAspelling: 
kwɑhkwɑkwɑhtimɑni
Frances Karttunen: 

CUAHCUACUAHTIMAN(I) vrefl for things to be scraping against each other / se están rascando los unos a los otros (C) [(1)Cf.128r]. According to C this can refer to a dog biting at fleas, horses scratching each other, and the like. See CUAHCUACUĀ, MAN(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 57.