C / CH

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kwɑwtɬɑh
Orthographic Variants: 
cuauhtlah

the forest, the woods, mountains, wilderness (see Karttunen and attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtla

forest, woods, wilds, the backcountry
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.

kwɑwtɬɑɑːkiːlloːtɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
cuauhtlaāquīllōtl

fruit-bearing tree (see Karttunen)

kwɑwtɬɑːkɑtɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
cuauhtlācatl

a man of wood (see Karttunen)

kwɑwtɬɑhkɑtɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
cuauhtlahcatl

highlander, mountain dweller, savage (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtlacayotl
Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtlachayalli

wooden latticework (see attestations)

kwɑwtɬɑtʃihtʃiːwki
Orthographic Variants: 
cuauhtlachihchīuhqui

a carpenter (see Karttunen)

the trunk of a tree (described and pictured in Book 11 of the Florentine Codex)
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. 117r. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/117r . Accessed 12 November 2025.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtlacuicui
Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtlacuicuic

a carver (of wood?) (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtlacuicuiliztli

the act of notching or pruning trees (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtlacuicuitl
Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtlacuilo
Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtlacuiloa
Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtlacuiloliztli
Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtlacuilolli
Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtlauiteconi, quauhtlahuiteconi
Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtla huitzquilitl

a herb used in a potion that would cure abdominal "coldness"

Martín de la Cruz, Libellus de medicinalibus indorum herbis; manuscrito azteca de 1552; segun traducción latina de Juan Badiano; versión española con estudios comentarios por diversos autores (Mexico: Fondo de Cultural Económica; Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, 1991), 47 [32 r.].

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtlalilli