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cuetlania.

Headword: 
cuetlania.
Principal English Translation: 

to break sticks or long things (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
kwetɬɑːniɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

cuetlania. nitla. (pret. onitlacuetlani.) quebrar palos, o cosas largas.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 26r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

CUETLĀNIĀ vrefl,vt for something to collapse; to break something up, disjoint, dislocate something / se cae (de deblidad, etc.) (T), quebrar palos, o cosas largas (M), lo disloca (Z) See CUETLĀN(I). CUETLĀNĪLŌ nonact. CUETLĀNIĀ
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 70.