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cuelihui.

Headword: 
cuelihui.
Principal English Translation: 

to twist oneself

Orthographic Variants: 
cueliui
IPAspelling: 
kweːliwi
Alonso de Molina: 

cueliui. ni. (pret. onicueliuh.) entortarse o torcerse.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 26r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

CUĒLIHU(I) to bend, twist / entortarse o torcerse (M) This is attested in the sources for this dictionary only in the reduplicated form CUĒCUĒLIHU(I). See CUĒLOĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 69.