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cuetlaxhuia.

Headword: 
cuetlaxhuia.
Principal English Translation: 

to cover or bind something with cured leather

Orthographic Variants: 
cuetlaxuia
IPAspelling: 
kwetɬɑʃwiɑː
Alonso de Molina: 

cuetlaxuia. nitla. (pret. onitlacuetlaxui.) encorar algo con cuero adobado.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 26v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

CUETLAXHUIĀ vt to cover or bind something with cured leather / encorar algo con cuero adobado (M), lo pega con cuero (Z) [(2)Zp.95,149]. The Z attestations are in intransitive form without an object prefix. See CUETLAX-TLI, -HUIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 70.

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