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huacqui.

Headword: 
huacqui.
Principal English Translation: 

something dry, dried up (see Molina and Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
uacqui, huācqui
IPAspelling: 
wɑːkki
Alonso de Molina: 

uacqui. cosa seca, enxuta, o emmagrecida.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 154r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

HUĀCQUI something dry, desiccated / cosa seca, enjuta, o enmagrecido (M) [(2)Tp.127,239,(2)Xp.100]. See HUĀQU(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 80.