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cuacualtzin.

Headword: 
cuacualtzin.
Principal English Translation: 

someone, something pretty, attractive (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cuācualtzin
IPAspelling: 
kwɑːkwɑltsin
Frances Karttunen: 

CUĀCUALTZIN someone, something pretty, attractive / bonito, agradable, hermoso, lindo (T) [(2)Tp.122,136]. See CUAL-LI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 57.