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cualneci.

Headword: 
cualneci.
Principal English Translation: 

to look good (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cualnēci
IPAspelling: 
kwɑlneːsi
Frances Karttunen: 

CUALNĒC(I) to look good / parecer bien (C) [(4)Cf.49v]. In M this is given only as a substantive qualneci ‘something finelooking, beautiful.’ See CUAL-LI, NĒC(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 59.