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icutli.

Headword: 
icutli.
Principal English Translation: 

younger sister, cousin

Alonso de Molina: 

Icuh. mi hermano, o hermana menor. (dize la hermana mayor).
Icuh. mi hermana menor. (dize el hermano mayor).
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, f. 34r.

Attestations from sources in English: 

It appears that the possessed form and the absolutive have a similar beginning, with a seeming elision of the beginning i and the possessor i or y.
Robert Haskett and Stephanie Wood's notes from Nahuatl sessions with James Lockhart and subsequent research.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

y nicuhctzin Juana Francisca = mi hermana [menor] Juana Francisca (Ciudad de México, 1582)
Luis Reyes García, Eustaquio Celestino Solís, Armando Valencia Ríos, et al, Documentos nauas de la Ciudad de México del siglo XVI (México: Centro de Investigación y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social y Archivo General de la Nación, 1996), 178.

themes: 
Family, Kinship, Descent