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cuauhtic.

Headword: 
cuauhtic.
Principal English Translation: 

someone tall, something long or someone tired and stiff (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
kwɑwtik
Frances Karttunen: 

CUAUHTIC someone tall, something long or someone tired and stiff /hombre alto de cuerpo, o de gran estatura (M), cosa larga como palo o árbol (C), cansado (Z) Height and stiffness are both attributes of trees, hence the distinct senses of this. See CUAHU(I)-TL, CUAUHTI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 64.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents cuauhtic in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

cuauhtic = tall (like a 'tree' cuahuitl)
Michel Launey, An Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, translated and adapted by Christopher MacKay (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011), 111.

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