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cuicuihuia.

Headword: 
cuicuihuia.
Principal English Translation: 

to cluck (for a chicken to make its sound) (see Molina) (an onomatopoetic word)

Orthographic Variants: 
cuicuiuia
IPAspelling: 
kwikwiwiɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

cuicuiuia. nitla. (pret. onitlacuicuiui.) piar el pollo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 26v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

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