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cuauhhuaucalli.

Headword: 
cuauhhuaucalli.
Principal English Translation: 

cage (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
kwɑwwɑwkɑlli
Frances Karttunen: 

CUAUHHUAUHCAL-LI cage / jaula (Z) [(4)Zp.73,149,225]. Z has characteristic CUO for CUAUH. M has quauacalli and quauhacalli, both meaning a measure for grain, and also quauacal referring to a person with a narrow head. These are probably CUAUHĀCAL-LI and CUĀHUACAL respectively, and not synonymous with this item. A more common synonymous form is CUAUHCAL-LI. See CUAHU(I)-TL, CUAUHCAL-LI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 62.