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Cuauhquimichin.

Orthographic Variants: 
Quauhquimichi, Quauhquimichin

a person's name (gender not made clear)

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Cuauhquiyahuac.

the Eagle Door or Eagle Gate to the Templo Mayor patio (the location is a matter of some debate--see attestations); also cited as a neighborhood (barrio) of Tenochtitlan

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Cuauhquiyahuacatl.

a title given to a principal for distinguished service in war (see attestations in Spanish); this was also used as a name, possibly, by a tribute payer in Huejotzinco (see the Matrícula de Huexotzinco, folio 700 recto)

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cuauhtapazolli.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtapazolli
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cuauhtatala.

Orthographic Variants: 
cuauhtotopotli, quauhtatala, quauhtotopotli

Golden-fronted Woodpecker, a bird (see Hunn, attestations), the -tatala part may refer to a large torso or chest

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cuauhtecatl.

Orthographic Variants: 
coauhteca, quauhtecatl

"eagle-man" (sacrificial victim in the month of Tlacaxipehualiztli)
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), 47.

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cuauhtechalotl.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtechalotl
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cuauhtecomatl.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtecomatl

a gourd or the tree that bears the gourds
Frances Karttunen, unpublished manuscript, used here with her permission.

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cuauhtecpantli.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtecpantli

a wooden screen, lattice, grate, grill; perhaps a protective device made of wood (see Molina)

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cuauhtecpanyo.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtecpanyo

something involving lattice (see Molina); and see cuauhtecpantli

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cuauhtectli.

Orthographic Variants: 
quahtectli, quahtecctli, quatecctli, quauhtecctli, quauhtectli

cut wood; firewood; for a discussion of various kinds of wood that has been cut, including this term, see the Digital Florentine Codex, Book 11, f 119r., https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/book/11/folio/119r?spTexts=&nhTexts=

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cuauhteixiptla xinqui.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhteixiptla xinqui.

one who carves wooden images [such as saints' images] in the round (see Molina)

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cuauhteixiptla.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhteixiptla
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cuauhtelolohuia.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtelolouia, quauhtelolohuia
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cuauhtelolotli.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtelolotli
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cuauhtema.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtema
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cuauhtema.

kwɑwtemɑ

has this as both transitive and intransitive. to beat someone with a stick (see Karttunen)

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cuauhtemalaca elcuauhyotl.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtemalaca elquauhyotl, cuauhtemalaca elquauhyotl

a cart axle (see Molina)

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cuauhtemalaca tlapechcuauhyotl.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtemalaca tlapechquauhyotl

the pole of a wagon or a cart (see Molina)

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cuauhtemalaca tlatlecahuiloni.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtemalaca tlatlecauiloni, quauhtemalaca tlatlecahuiloni

a pulley (see Molina)

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