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cuemolihuic.

Headword: 
cuemolihuic.
Principal English Translation: 

worried, disturbed (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cuehmolīhuic
IPAspelling: 
kwehmoliːwik
Frances Karttunen: 

CUEHMOLĪHUIC someone worried, disturbed / preocupado (Z) [(2)Zp.101,232]. Both attestations mark the vowel of the third syllable long. This implies intransitive CUEHMOLIHU(I) corresponding to transitive CUEHMOLOĀ, but the I should be a short. See CUEHMOLOĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 69.

themes: 
Behavior, Personality
Emotions