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Letter C/CH: Displaying 4761 - 4780 of 5780

cuauhchinamitl.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhchinamitl

a veranda, a wooden porch, a parapet, a fence, or a stockade (see Molina); of course, this can also represent the plural

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cuauhchiquihuitl.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhchiquiuitl, quauhchiquihuitl

a wooden basket

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cuauhchocholli.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhchocholli
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cuauhchocholpol.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhchocholpul, quauhchocholpol

a tall person (see Molina)

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cuauhchochopitli.

Orthographic Variants: 
cuauhtotopitli

Golden-fronted Woodpecker, a bird (see Hunn, attestations)

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cuauhcihuatl.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhcioatl; quauhciuatl, quauhcihuatl

a mature woman (literally, eagle-woman)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part II, 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), 51.

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Cuauhcitlaltzin.

Orthographic Variants: 
Quauhcitlaltzin

a tlatoani (tlahtoani) of the Chichimecas; started his rule in the year 2 Rabbit and died in the year 4 Rabbit (Quauhtinchan, s. XVI)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 211, 212.

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Cuauhcoatl.

Orthographic Variants: 
Quauhcoatl, Quauhcohuatl

a personal name, attested male as seen in San Diego Amanalco, part of Tenochtitlan, in 1563

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cuauhcocolli.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhcocolli

a hound made from wood (see Molina)

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cuauhcocotoctli.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhcocotoctli

pieces of wood (see Molina)

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cuauhcocoyoctli.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhcocoyoctli

stocks (for holding a person), prison; or, a hole made in wood (see Molina)

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cuauhcomitl.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhcomitl

a wooden pulpit, or a tunnel (?), or a pipe (see Molina)

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cuauhcoxolitli.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhcoxolitli

a pheasant (see Molina)

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cuauhcoyahuac.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhcoyauac, quauhcoyahuac

the distance or space between beams in a wooden structure (see Molina)

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cuauhcoyametl.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhcoyametl

a wild boar (see Molina; transl. to Engl. here by Stephanie Wood); this is an animal found in the woods

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cuauhcoyoctli.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhcoyoctli

stocks, prison, or a hole made in wood; or, wood with holes carved in it (see Molina)

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Cuauhcoyotl.

a personal name; e.g., an Alonso Cuauhcoyotl is mentioned in the Códice de Santa María Asunción, and a Martín Cuauhcoyotl is found on f. 897r of the Matrícula de Huexotzinco (SW)

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cuauhcozcatl.

a wooden collar put on slaves or captives; it was often connected to canes or sticks for controlling their movement

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cuauhcuechtli.

kwɑwkweːtʃtɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
cuauhcuēchtli

wood debris, wood shavings, sawdust (see Karttunen)

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cuauhcuetzpalin.

a green iguana; also referred to as being like a thick long lizard; it lives in trees [which must be why its name starts with cuauh- (SW)]
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 65r, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/65r/images/f07c172f-c... Accessed 26 October 2025.

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