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cuecuetzoa.

Headword: 
cuecuetzoa.
Principal English Translation: 

to stir or move something about (transitive); or, to move or stir oneself (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
kwekwetsoɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

cuecuetzoa. nitla. (pret. onitlacuecuetzo.) rebullir, o menear algo.
cuecuetzoa. nino. (pret. oninocuecuetzo.) rebullirse o estar desasossegado.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 26r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Hanns J. Prem puts this word in the shape category of "tortuous" (gewunden in German).
Matrícula de Huexotzinco (Ms. mex. 387 der Bibliothèque Nationale Paris), Graz, Austria (1974), 682.