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cuaihuintic.

Headword: 
cuaihuintic.
Principal English Translation: 

someone giddy, faint, light-headed (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cuāihuintic
IPAspelling: 
kwɑːiwintik
Frances Karttunen: 

CUĀIHUINTIC someone giddy, faint, light-headed / desvanecido de la cabeza (M), mareado (Z) [(2)Zp.82,147]. Z lacks the final –C, although it is present in Z’s ĪXHUINTIC. Z consistently has the vowel of HUIN marked long although it is consistently short elsewhere. See CUĀ(I)-TL, IHUINTI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 58.