Search Issues: Update 2026-09-16 - Repairs to some of our search pages are ongoing. Thank you for your continued patience!

Meanwhile, elements of the Advanced Search are working and the Alphabetical Listings are working, too.

cuecuetlaxoa.

Headword: 
cuecuetlaxoa.
Principal English Translation: 

to faint, flag

James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 216.

IPAspelling: 
kwekwetɬɑʃoɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

cuecuetlaxoa. nino. (pret. oninocuecuetlaxo.) desmayar, o cansarse no perseuerando en lo comenzado.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 25v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

cuecuetlaxoa. nite. (pret. onitecuecuetlaxo.) desmayar a otro desta manera.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 25v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

cuehcuetlaxoa, nitla. Class 3: ōnitlacuehcuetlaxoh. reduplicated form of cuetlaxoa with much the same meaning. the h in the first syllable is uncertain.
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 216.