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cuetlaxoa.

Headword: 
cuetlaxoa.
IPAspelling: 
kwetɬɑʃoɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

cuetlaxoa. nite. desmayar a otro.
cuetlaxoa. nino. (pret. oninocuetlaxo.) desmayarse, oamortecerse de tristeza.
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: 

CUETLAXOĀ vrefl,vt to be weak, faint, swooning; to cause someone to be weak, faint, swooning /desmayarse, o amorte- cerse de tristeza (M), desmayarse a otro (M) This is implied by CUETLAXIHU(I). See CUETLAHU(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 70–71.