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cuecuelihui.

Headword: 
cuecuelihui.
Principal English Translation: 

to bend, to be flexible (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cuēcuēlihui
IPAspelling: 
kweːkweːliwi
Frances Karttunen: 

CUĒCUĒLIHU(I) to bend, to be flexible / entortarse o torcerse (M for unreduplicated form), se tuerce, es flexibe (T) [(1)Tp.121]. M has this in unreduplicated form only, with the same sense as T. This intransitive verb is synonymous with the reflexive verb CUĒCUĒLOĀ. See CUĒCUĒLOĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 68.