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cacalcui.

Headword: 
cacalcui.
Principal English Translation: 

to become thin, to lose weight (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
kɑkɑlkwi
Frances Karttunen: 

CACALCUI to become thin, to lose weight / se enflaquece (Z) [(2)Zp.51,143]. See CACALTIC, CUI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 19.

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