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cuetia.

Headword: 
cuetia.
Principal English Translation: 

to get dressed, to put on a skirt (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cuētiā
IPAspelling: 
kweːtiɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

CUĒTIĀ vrefl to get dressed, top put on a skirt / se viste, se pone el chincuete (T) [(6)Tp.147,214]. S gives a different gloss for this ‘to be a person of rank,’ but derives it from CUĒ(I)TL nonetheless. Z has the variant CUĒITIĀ. See CUĒ(I)TL.

CUĒTĪLŌ nonact. CUĒTIĀ
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 70.