to be weak, feeble, or faint (see Kartunnen), or become lazy (see Molina)
Orthographic Variants:
cuetlaxiui
IPAspelling:
kwetɬɑʃiwi
Alonso de Molina:
cuetlaxiui. ni. (pret. onicuetlaxiuh.) desmayar, o emperezar. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 26r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.
Frances Karttunen:
CUETLAXIHU(I) to be weak, feeble, faint / desmayar o empezar (M)[(1)Tp.129]. This implies CUETLAXOĀ. See CUETLAHU(I). CUETLAXIHUĪHUA nonact. CUETLAXIHU(I) CUETLAXIHUĪTIĀ caus. CUETLAXIHU(I) Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 70.