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for seeds to spoil after all.
Orthographic Variants: 
quaqualo

it is decayed (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 109.

kwɑkwɑloːk
Orthographic Variants: 
cuacualōc

something pitted (such as wood) (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
quaqualtia

to incite, provoke, or hurry another person (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
quaqualtia

to graze (as in cattle) (see Molina)

kwɑːkwɑltsin
Orthographic Variants: 
cuācualtzin

someone, something pretty, attractive (see Karttunen)

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quaquamecatlatla

to act foolishly or to go crazy (a metaphor) (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
quaquanmiminaliztli, quaquamiminaliztli

bullfights, bullfighting (see Chimalpahin)

Orthographic Variants: 
quaquanmiminalo, quaquamiminalo

there is bullfighting (see attestations)

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quaquammatia

to branch out (as in a tree) (see Molina)

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quaquammatia

to extend the body of another person in the shape of a St. Andrew cross(?) (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
quaquammiminaloni

a pole (see Molina)

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quaquammiminaloyan

an arena for the running of the bulls (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
quaquamminaloni

a pole (see Molina)

1. to place s.t. heavy on s.t. else, after all. 2. for s.t. to press on and bruise a part of one’s body, after all.
Orthographic Variants: 
Quaquappitzaoac, Quaquapitzahuac

the first ruler of Tlatelolco (see the Florentine Codex); father of Tlacateozin, who also ruled in Tlatelolco, and this young man married Quaquapitzahuac's sister, Xiuhcanahualtzin (central Mexico, 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, 110–111.

Orthographic Variants: 
quaquappixqui, cuacuauhpixqui

a man who drives oxen or cattle (see Molina)

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quaquappoliuhqui

an animal without horns (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
quaquatiuetzi, quaquatihuetzi
to climb or go on top of a tree or house, after all.