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cuicuinaca.

Headword: 
cuicuinaca.
Principal English Translation: 

to make a low sound in the throat; for a person to hum or a dog to growl (see Karttunen) (an onomatopoetic word)

IPAspelling: 
kwikwinɑkɑ
Frances Karttunen: 

CUICUINACA to make a low sound in the throat; for a person to hum or a dog to growl / canturrea (gente), gruñe (perro) [(3)Tp.121].

CUICUINACOHUA nonact. CUICUINACA

CUICUINACALTIĀ caus. CUICUINACA
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 71.

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