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cuanhuaqui.

Headword: 
cuanhuaqui.
Principal English Translation: 

to grow thin, frail (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cuanhuāqui
IPAspelling: 
kwɑnwɑːki
Frances Karttunen: 

CUANHUĀQU(I) to grow thin, frail / estar débil, enclenque, delgado, seco (M), se adelgaza, se enflaquece (T) [(3)Tp.119,(1)Rp.124]. T has lost the internal N. M has CUANHUĀQU(I), the associated noun CUANHUĀCQUI, and also CUANHUĀTZ(A) ‘to make someone get thin, weak,’ but only in the Spanish-to–Nahuatl side, associated with the verb enflaquecer. They are synonymous with HUĀQU(I), HUĀCQUI, and HUĀTZ(A) respectively. See HUĀQU(I).

CUANHUĀCOHUA nonact. CUANHUĀQU(I).

CUANHUĀQUĪTIĀ caus. CUANHUĀQU(I)

CUANHUĀTZ(A) See CUANHUĀQU(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 60.