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cuanamiqui.

Headword: 
cuanamiqui.
Principal English Translation: 

to oppose, contradict, attack, resist someone, to meet someone head on (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cuahnāmiqui
IPAspelling: 
kwɑhnɑːmiki
Frances Karttunen: 

CUAHNĀMIQU(I) vt; pret: -NĀMIC to oppose, contradict, attack, resist someone, to meet someone head on / le opone, le contradice, le afrente, le ataca, le asalta, lo resiste (T), unirse, hablando de dos extremos (S) [(6)Tp.182,229]. See CUĀ(I)-TL, NĀMIQU(I).

CUAHNĀMIQUILIĀ applic. CUAHNĀMIQU(I)

CUAHNĀMIQUĪHUA nonact. CUAHNĀMIQU(I)
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 58.

themes: 
Protest, Resistance