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huehuelihui.

Headword: 
huehuelihui.
Principal English Translation: 

to go to pieces, to collapse (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
huehhuelihui
IPAspelling: 
wehweliwi
Frances Karttunen: 

HUEHHUELIHU(I) to go to pieces, to collapse / se destruirá (C for future ) [(1)Cf.102r,(3)Xp.101]. The glottal stop in the first syllable is not attested in C or X but is attested in transitive HUEHHUELOĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 83.