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cuecuelpachtic.

Headword: 
cuecuelpachtic.
Principal English Translation: 

something wrinkled, crumpled, folded (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cuehcuelpachtic
IPAspelling: 
kwehkwelpɑtʃtik
Frances Karttunen: 

CUEHCUELPACHTIC something wrinkled, crumpled, folded / arrugado (Z) [(2)Zp.14,148]. M has cuecuelpachoa ‘to double over or fold something repeatedly’ redup. CUELPACHTIC
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 69.

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