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cuitlapanomitl.

Headword: 
cuitlapanomitl.
Principal English Translation: 

back-bone (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
kwitɬɑpɑnomitɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

CUITLAPANOMI-TL inalienably possessed form: -CUITLAPANOMIYŌ back-bone / su espinazo, su espina dorsal (Z) [(2)Zp.56,157]. See CUITLAPAN-TLI, OMI-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 73.