cuacuauhpiya.

Headword: 
cuacuauhpiya.
Principal English Translation: 

to herd cattle (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cuācuauhpiya
IPAspelling: 
kwɑːkwɑwpiyɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

CUĀCUAUHPIY(A) pret: -PIX ~ -PIX to herd cattle / cuida bueyes (T) [(4)Tp.122,231]. CUĀCUAUH here is apparently a truncation of CUĀCUAHUEH ‘animal with horns.’ The long-vowel variant preterit form is not directly attested but is established for component PIY(A). See CUĀCUAHU(I)-TL, PIY(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 57.