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cualanqui.

Headword: 
cualanqui.
Principal English Translation: 

someone angry (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cualānqui
IPAspelling: 
kwɑlɑːnki
Frances Karttunen: 

CUALĀNQUI someone angry / el que está enojado (M) This follows from CUALĀN(I) but is attested in the sources for this dictionary only as the first element in CUALĀNCĀNAHUATIĀ and CUALĀNCĀQUIQUINACA. In the form CUALĀNCĀ- it is the first element in several more verbs in M. See CUALĀN(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 58.

themes: 
Emotions