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cuauhpitza.

Headword: 
cuauhpitza.
Principal English Translation: 

someone, something weak (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cuauhpitza
IPAspelling: 
kwɑwpitsɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

CUAUHPITZA someone, something weak / flaco (T) [(1)Tp.119]. M has quauhpitzactli ‘thin stick, wand.’ See CUAHU(I)-TL, PITZAC-TLI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 63.