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cuahuihuica.

Headword: 
cuahuihuica.
Principal English Translation: 

to nod, to shake one’s head (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cuāhuīhuīca
IPAspelling: 
kwɑːwiːwiːkɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

CUĀHUĪHUĪCA vrefl to nod, to shake one’s head / cabecea ... lo menea (la cabeza) (Z) [(3)Zp.22,83,169]. See CUĀ(I)-TL, HUĪHUĪCA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 58.