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cuecuetlaxtic.

Headword: 
cuecuetlaxtic.
Principal English Translation: 

something flexible (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cuēcuetlaxtic
IPAspelling: 
kweːkwetɬɑʃtik
Frances Karttunen: 

CUĒCUETLAXTIC something flexible / flexible (T,Z) [(2)Tp.45,121,(2)Zp.60,148]. In the Spanish-to-Nahuatl side, T has the reflex of CUĒCUETLAXTIC, while the Nahuatl-to-Spanish side has a variant form with I for E in the first two syllables. Z does not mark the vowel of the first syllable long. redup. CUETLAXTIC.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 68.