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cuauhuiztic.

Headword: 
cuauhuiztic.
Principal English Translation: 

splinter, chip (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cuauhhuīztic
IPAspelling: 
kwɑwwiːstik
Frances Karttunen: 

CUAUHHUĪZTIC splinter, chip / astilla (Z) [(1)Zp.149]. The second element is probably HUITZ ‘thorn’ in spite of the Z for TZ and the discrepancy in vowel length. See CUAHU(I)TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 62.