CUAUHHUĪZTIC splinter, chip / astilla (Z) [(1)Zp.149]. The second element is probably HUITZ ‘thorn’ in spite of the Z for TZ and the discrepancy in vowel length. See CUAHU(I)TL. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 62.