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cuectli.

Headword: 
cuectli.
Principal English Translation: 

fox (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cuēctli
IPAspelling: 
kweːktɬi
Frances Karttunen: 

CUĒC-TLI fox / zorro (Z) [(2)Zp.132,148]. Although this is suggestive of CUETLĀCH-TLI ‘wolf,’ there is a vowel length discrepancy.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 68.