to back away, to run back away from others; or, to escape back to where one was? (see Molina)
IPAspelling:
kwitɬɑkwepɑ
Alonso de Molina:
cuitlacuepa. nino. (pret. oninocuitlacuep.) huir atras. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 27r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.
Frances Karttunen:
CUITLACUEP(A) vrefl to flee, retreat / huir atrás (M) [(1)Cf.106r,(2)Zp.126,149]. Z has this with QUEP(A) for CUEP(A). See CUITLA-TL, CUEP(A). CUITLAQUEP(A) See CUITLACUEP(A). Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 73.