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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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cuauhcuezcomatl.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhcuezcomatl

a granary made of wood; primarily used to store dried maize (corn), but also beans and chia (the wrinkled chia and the small seeds)

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cuauheloquilitl.

This fresh herb from the forest is pictured and glossed in the Florentine Codex Book 11, folio 134r., and it is described on folio 136r.

Sahagún, Bernardino de, Antonio Valeriano, Alonso Vegerano, Martín Jacobita, Pedro de San Buenaventura, Diego de Grado, Bonifacio Maximiliano, Mateo Severino, et al. Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España (Florentine Codex), Ms. Mediceo Palatino 218–20, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, MiBACT, 1577. Available at Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter, Alicia Maria Houtrouw, Kevin Terraciano, Jeanette Peterson, Diana Magaloni, and Lisa Sousa, bk. 11, fol. 134r. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/134r . Accessed 18 November 2025.

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cuauhhuaucalli.

kwɑwwɑwkɑlli

cage (see Karttunen)

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cuauhhuehuetque.

Orthographic Variants: 
cuahuehuetque, quauhhuehuetque, quauhhuehuetque

old eagles, a reference to those pre-Hispanic warriors who were too old to go into battle (found in Durán) (ca. 1582, Mexico City)
Luis Reyes García, ¿Como te confundes? ¿Acaso no somos conquistados? Anales de Juan Bautista (Mexico: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, Biblioteca Lorenzo Boturini Insigne y Nacional Basílica de Guadalupe, 2001), 197, nota 86.

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cuauhhuia.

kwɑwwiɑː
Orthographic Variants: 
cuauhhuiā, cuauhuia

to hit someone, something with a stick (see Karttunen)

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cuauhhuia.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhuia, quauhhuia
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