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cenhuetzi.

Headword: 
cenhuetzi.
Principal English Translation: 

for people to fall or sit down together (see Molina and Andrews)

Orthographic Variants: 
cenuetzi
IPAspelling: 
senwetsi
Alonso de Molina: 

cenuetzi ti. (pret. oticenuetzque.) caer juntamente algunos.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 18r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

In ixquich mācēhualli cenhuetzi = All the commoners sit down together.
James Richard Andrews, Introduction to Classical Nahuatl, vol. 1 (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003), 419.