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Coatzon.

a name; e.g. Diego Coatzon, was an indigenous man of Tetzcoco in the sixteenth century

(central Mexico, early seventeenth century)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 204–205.

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Coaxalpan.

literally, On the Serpent-Sand, this was "a space situated at the steps of the [temple of Huitzilopochtli] and the patio below, a space that [one] would climb up in five or six steps" and played an important role in the ritual of human sacrifice.

Digital Florentine Codex, Book 2, f. 72r; translation from Spanish to English by León García-Garagarza (2023), https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/book/2/folio/72r.

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coaxincayotl.

the skin or hide of a snake (see Molina)

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Coaxoch.

Orthographic Variants: 
Coaxoch, Necaval

a person's name (attested as female); also the name of a plant (see the Gran Diccionario Náhuatl)

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Coaxoloc.

Orthographic Variants: 
Covaxolloc, Couaxolloc, Coaxolloc

a place name that may draw from a female deity's name (see attestations); and/or, could it have a relationship to cuaxochtli (boundary)?

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coaxonehuatl.

koːɑːʃoneːwɑtɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
coaxoneuatl

the skin or hide of a snake (see Molina)

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coayotl.

companion(s); companionship (see attestations)

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Coazacatl.

a personal name, attested, for example, in Culhuacan and Huexotzinco

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cobetah.

bucket.
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cobrador.

a collector; e.g. a tributes collector
(Tlaxcala, 1662–1692)
Juan Buenaventura Zapata y Mendoza, Historia cronológica de la Noble Ciudad de Tlaxcala, transcripción paleográfica, traducción, presentación y notas por Luis Reyes García y Andrea Martínez Baracs (Tlaxcala and Mexico City: Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala, Secretaría de Extensión Universitaria y Difusión Cultural, y Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, 1995), 516–517.

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cobraroa.

to collect
(a loan verb from Spanish, cobrar)

Caterina Pizzigoni, ed., Testaments of Toluca (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2007), 34.

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cocah.

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cocauhcatzintli.

Orthographic Variants: 
cozauhcatzintli?

a piece of property

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coccamachaloa.

kotʃkɑmɑtʃɑloɑː
Orthographic Variants: 
cochcamachaloā

to yawn (see Karttunen)

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cochaana.

kotʃɑɑnɑ

to stretch (see Molina)

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cocharah.

spoon.
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cocharahhuiā.

to eat s.t. with a spoon.
#una persona le hace falta de comida en su plato por una cuchurada tambien o su tortilla cuando va a comer .” diego agarra con una cuchara su comida por que no esta ocostumbrado a comer nadas con las manas.”
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cocharahhuiliā.

to eat s.t. from s.o. else’s plate with a spoon.
# Persona le quita la comida de otro con una cuchara. “cuando mi hermano y yo nos dan de comer juntos le quito una cuchara de comida a celtzin porque quiero hacerla enojar.”
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cocharahyō.

1. spoon used for serving a specific dish. 2. the bucket of a tractor.
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Cochatl.

Orthographic Variants: 
Cuchatl

a Nahua personal name (not clear whether male or female)

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