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cuauhtexticatotonti.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtexticatotonti
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cuauhtextli.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtextli

sawdust
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. 120r. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/120r?spTexts=&nhTexts= . Accessed 12 November 2025.

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cuauhtezacatia.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtezacatia
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cuauhti.

kwɑwti
Orthographic Variants: 
cuauhti

to get stiff, tired (see Karttunen)

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cuauhtic.

kwɑwtik

someone tall, something long or someone tired and stiff (see Karttunen)

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cuauhtic.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtic

someone tall or something tall (see Molina and Lockhart)

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cuauhtica nemi, cuiltica nemi.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtica nemi, quiltica nemi.

a farm worker or a commoner (see Molina); literally, someone who lives from the woods, from the plants

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cuauhticanemi.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhticanemi

part of a metaphorical expression meant to refer to vassals, commmoners, macehuales: quilticanemi (those who pick quelites), quauhticanemi (those who gather firewood)

(sixteenth century, Quauhtinchan)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 153, nota 5.

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cuauhticapol.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhticapul, quauhticapol

a person of considerable height (see Molina)

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cuauhticayotl.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhticayutl, quauhticayotl

a tall body height or stature (see Molina)

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cuauhticpac nihualtetlaza.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhticpac niualtetlaza, quauhticpac nihualtetlaza
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cuauhticpachuia.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhticpacuia, quauhticpachuia
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cuauhtilac.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtilac

very thick (see Sahagún)

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cuauhtilactic.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtilactic

something that is thick, such as a cane hedge (see Molina)

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cuauhtilia.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtilia

to arouse or alter the penis (see Molina); lit. to make it wooden (?)

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Cuauhtinchan.

Orthographic Variants: 
Quauhtinchan

an altepetl in what is now the state of Puebla; the patron saint that was chosen for this altepetl is San Juan Bautista

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cuauhtitimpol.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtitimpul, quauhtitimpol

a person of considerable height (see Molina)

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Cuauhtitlan.

kwɑwtitɬɑn
Orthographic Variants: 
Quauhtitlan

an altepetl that produced a set of Nahua annals; it was a place name that meant, literally, "adjacent to woodland" (see Karttunen)

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Cuauhtitlan.

Orthographic Variants: 
Cuauhtitla, Quauhtitlan, Cuautitlan

a Nahua altepetl of pre-Columbian central Mexico; also, a person's name (gender not made clear)

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cuauhtizahuatzalli.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtizauatzalli, quauhtizahuatzalli

dry wood, or firewood (see Molina)

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