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cualtzin.

Headword: 
cualtzin.
Principal English Translation: 

someone or something pretty, attractive (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
kwɑltsin
Frances Karttunen: 

CUALTZIN someone or something pretty, attractive / bonito, hermoso, fino, lindo, puro, precioso (Z) [(7)Zp.20,60,67,77,101,103,147]. T has synonymous CUĀCUALTZIN. See CUAL-LI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 59.