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nahualcuilia.

Headword: 
nahualcuilia.
Principal English Translation: 

to take something for another with caution and dissimulation (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
naualcuilia
IPAspelling: 
nɑːwɑlkwiliɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

naualcuilia. nitetla. (pret. onitetlanaualcuili.) tomar algo a otro con cautelosa disimulacion.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 063r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.