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ahuahuetzi.

Headword: 
ahuahuetzi.
Principal English Translation: 

for one's head to droop (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
āhuahuetzi
IPAspelling: 
ɑːwɑwetsi
Frances Karttunen: 

ĀHUAHUETZ(I) for one´s head to droop / se baja la mollera (y se enferma) (T)[(1)Tp.170]. This involves the less common ´crown of the head´ sense of Ā-TL. See Ā-TL, HUETZ(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 8.