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mocuicuiliqui.

Headword: 
mocuicuiliqui.
Principal English Translation: 

someone who makes another entreat him, someone who resists (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
mocuihcuīlihqui
IPAspelling: 
mokwihkwiːlihki
Alonso de Molina: 

mocuicuiliqui. cara cosa, que vale mucho su precio o el que se haze de rogar, o elque resiste
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 58r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

MOCUIHCUĪLIHQUI someone who makes another entreat him, someone who resists / el que se hace de rogar o el que resiste (M) [(1)Cf.52r]. This is synonymous with MOCUIHCUĪLlĀNI. See CUIHCUĪLIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 151.

themes: 
Protest, Resistance