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Letter C/CH: Displaying 4901 - 4920 of 5795

cuauhtemalacahuia.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtemalacauia, quauhtemalacahuia

to drive carts; or to raise something with a pulley (see Molina)

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cuauhtemalacatl ic tlazotl.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtemalacatl ic tlazotl

a cart axle (see Molina)

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cuauhtemalacatl ic zotoc.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtemalacatl ic zotoc.

a cart axle (see Molina)

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cuauhtemalacatl itic onoc.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtemalacatl itic onoc

a cart axle (see Molina)

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cuauhtemalacatl.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtemalacatl

the wheel of a cart, or a very small cart (see Molina); also, a sacrificial stone (see attestations)

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cuauhtemalacayacana.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtemalacayacana

to be a cart driver; or, to drive carts (see Molina)

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cuauhtemalacayacanqui.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtemalacayacanqui

a cart driver (see Molina)

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cuauhtemalacayollotl.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtemalacayullotl, quauhtemalacayollotl

a cart axle (see Molina)

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Cuauhtemallan.

Orthographic Variants: 
cuautemalla, quauhtemalan, quauhtemalla, Quauhtemallan

Guatemala

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cuauhtemalli.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtemalli

a pile or a neat stack of wood (see Molina)

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cuauhtematlatl.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtematlatl

an ad hoc term invented to describe a catapult; literally, wooden sling for throwing stones (16th c., central Mexico)
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), 231.

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cuauhtemimilli.

a wood log (sixteenth century, central Mexico)
Berenice Alcántara and Pedro A. Muñoz, "'You Here, Don't Do It This Way': Allegory and Domestic Dwellings in Bernardino de Sahagún's Nahuatl Sermons of the House," Ethnohistory 71:2 (April 2024), see p. 151.

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Cuauhtemoc.

Orthographic Variants: 
Quauhtemoc, Quauhtemoctzin, Quauhtimoctzin

a personal name; e.g. the name of a ruler of Mexico-Tenochtitlan (1521–25) and a major figure at the time of the Spanish invasion and colonization of Mexico; son of Ahuitzotl, also a ruler of Tenochtitlan; this was also a name taken by commoner males (see Cline in attestations in English translation)

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cuauhtemolin.

a type of wood beetle (see the DFC for a description and an image; the image could be a compound hieroglyph)
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 106r, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/106r/images/0 Accessed 9 November 2025.

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cuauhten huetzi.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhten uetzi, quauhten huetzi
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cuauhtencatl.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtencatl
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cuauhtenco.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtenco
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Cuauhtencoztli.

Orthographic Variants: 
Quauhtencoztli

an indigenous ruler of Tlaxcala; he harbored fugitive sons of Quetzalpetlatl of Huexotzinco (central Mexico, early seventeenth century)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 184–185.

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cuauhtentli.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtentli
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cuauhtentli.

kwɑwteːntɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
cuauhtēntli

edge of the woods, stump or trunk of a tree (see Karttunen)

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