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huitolihui.

Headword: 
huitolihui.
Principal English Translation: 

to arch, to form an arc (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
uitolihui
IPAspelling: 
wiːtoːliwi
Alonso de Molina: 

uitoliui. (pret. ouitoliuh.) entortarse, o torcerse la vara, o cosa semejante.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 157v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

HUĪTŌLIHU(I) to arch, to form an arc / entortarse o torcerse la vara o cosa semejante (M), torcerse algo … en forma de arco (C) [(2)Cf.76v]. This implies transitive HUĪTŌLOĀ ‘to bend, arch something’.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 90.