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chichicauhcanenequi.

Headword: 
chichicauhcanenequi.
Principal English Translation: 

to gather strength to do something (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
chīchicāuhcānehnequi
IPAspelling: 
tʃiːtʃikɑːwkɑːnehneki
Frances Karttunen: 

CHĪCHICĀUHCĀNEHNEQU(I) vrefl; pret: -NEHNEC to gather strength to do something / hace fuerza (aunque esté débil) para una cosa (T) [(3)Tp.148]. In these attestations the vowel of the second syllable is given as long. This is also true of the item as it appears in a gloss on the Spanish-to-Nahuatl side of T. This must be an error, since this is a derivation from CHICĀHU(A). See CHICĀHU(A), NEHNEQU(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 47.