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a good day, a propitious day for doing something in particular (in the Mesoamerican calendar)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 9 -- The Merchants, No. 14, Part 10, 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, 1959), 56.

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cualli.

1. respectful, polite person. 2. a good thing. 3. well (adverb).

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cualli.

Orthographic Variants:

cuali, quali, qualli

good, a good thing, fine, well, handsome, pretty, beautiful, well (see Lockhart, Carochi, and Molina)

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cuallotl.

kwɑlloːtɬ

Orthographic Variants:

cuallōtl, qualyotl, quallotl

goodness (see Karttunen)

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cualneci.

Orthographic Variants:

qualneci

a colorful and eye-catching thing; (see Molina); good looking, with a good appearance

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cualneci.

kwɑlneːsi

Orthographic Variants:

cualnēci

to look good (see Karttunen)

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cualnemi.

Orthographic Variants:

qualnemi

to live well (see attestations)

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cualnemilice.

Orthographic Variants:

qualnemilice

a person who lives a good and holy life (see Molina)

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cualnemiliceque.

Orthographic Variants:

qualnemiliceque

people who live a good and holy life (see Molina)

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cualnemiliztica.

Orthographic Variants:

qualnemiliztica

through good living (see Molina)

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cualnemiliztli.

Orthographic Variants:

qualnemiliztli

a good and proper way of life
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 230.

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