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cuahuitequi.

Orthographic Variants:

quauitequi, quahuitequi

to hit someone with sticks; or, to injure someone in the head with a stick; or, to break up lumps of soil with a hoe or a stick (see Molina)

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Cuahuitl Ehua.

Orthographic Variants:

quauitl eua, quauitl eoa, Quahuitl Ehua

the name of a month of twenty days, also called Atl Cahualo; dedicated to the celebration of the rain deities, such as the Tlalocs and Chalchiuhtlicue
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 2 -- The Ceremonies, No. 14, Part III, 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, 1951), 1, 42.

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Cuahuitl Icac.

Orthographic Variants:

Quahuitl Icac, Quauitl Icac

a deity or legendary figure who helped Huitzilopochtli; he spied for him when Huitzilopochtli was plotting to kill his siblings to save his mother, Coatlicue(central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 3 -- The Origin of the Gods, Part IV, 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, 1978), 2.

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cuahuitl itzimpazoliuhca.

Orthographic Variants:

quauitl ytzimpazoliuhca, quahuitl ytzimpazoliuhca, quahuitl itzimppazoliuhca

saplings, sprouts, new shoots; new growth from the base of a tree (see Molina)

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cuahuitl itzin celica.

Orthographic Variants:

quauitl ytzin celica, quahuitl ytzin celica

a bud, new shoot, sapling, or sprout from the foot of the tree (see Molina)

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cuahuitl itzin itzmolinca.

Orthographic Variants:

quauitl itzin itzmolinca, quahuitl itzin itzmolinca

a bud, sprout, sapling, or a new shoot from the foot of the tree (see Molina)

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cuahuitl nepaniuhtoc.

Orthographic Variants:

quauitl nepaniuhtoc, quahuitl nepaniuhtoc

a simple wooden cross (see Molina)

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cuahuitl tecuintic.

Orthographic Variants:

quauitl tecuintic, quahuitl tecuintic

a tree or stick with knots, bumps, or hooks (see Molina)

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cuahuitl tetl nictetoctia.

Orthographic Variants:

quauitl tetl nictetoctia, quahuitl tetl nictetoctia

to reprehend, correct, and punish another person (see Molina)

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cuahuitl tetl quinequi.

Orthographic Variants:

quauitl tetl quinequi, quahuitl tetl quinequi

for someone to deserve to be reprehended, corrected, or punished (see Molina); literally, he wants sticks and stones

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cuahuitl.

1. tree. 2. cane (for walking). 3. firewood.

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cuahuitl.

Orthographic Variants:

quavitl, cuavitl, quauitl, quahuitl

stick; wood; tree(s); a forest; a club; a staff of office; also, a unit of measure; referring to a stick used in measurement; a "rod" (though this is much smaller than the English rod); sometimes translated into Spanish as "braza;" often equivalent to the matl (Cline); also, a person's name

S. L. Cline, Colonial Culhuacan, 1580-1600: A Social History of an Aztec Town (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1986), p. 236.

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