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cuitlacuepa.

Headword: 
cuitlacuepa.
Principal English Translation: 

to back away, to run back away from others; or, to escape back to where one was? (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
kwitɬɑkwepɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

cuitlacuepa. nino. (pret. oninocuitlacuep.) huir atras.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 27r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

CUITLACUEP(A) vrefl to flee, retreat / huir atrás (M) [(1)Cf.106r,(2)Zp.126,149]. Z has this with QUEP(A) for CUEP(A). See CUITLA-TL, CUEP(A). CUITLAQUEP(A) See CUITLACUEP(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 73.