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cuetlaxihui.

Headword: 
cuetlaxihui.
Principal English Translation: 

to be weak, feeble, or faint (see Kartunnen), or become lazy (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
cuetlaxiui
IPAspelling: 
kwetɬɑʃiwi
Alonso de Molina: 

cuetlaxiui. ni. (pret. onicuetlaxiuh.) desmayar, o emperezar.
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: 

CUETLAXIHU(I) to be weak, feeble, faint / desmayar o empezar (M)[(1)Tp.129]. This implies CUETLAXOĀ. See CUETLAHU(I). CUETLAXIHUĪHUA nonact. CUETLAXIHU(I) CUETLAXIHUĪTIĀ caus. CUETLAXIHU(I)
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 70.

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