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Cuauhtlequetzqui.

Orthographic Variants: 
Quauhtlequetzqui

third ruler of the Mexica, also said to be a god-bearer (teomama)
Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 144–5.

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cuāuhtli.

eagle, hawk.
# Un pájaro que no es peligroso su color es negro y no se come tiene sus alas largos y se lo come a los animales silvestres que ya están muertos y a los chiquitos. “Ayer un tipo de pájaro vino acabarlo de comer los hijos de una gallina donde estaban”.
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cuauhtli.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtli

eagle and/or a large hawk in general; also, the Golden Eagle (see Hunn, attestations); a calendrical marker; and, a person's name (attested as male)

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cuauhtlilli.

kwɑwtɬiːlli
Orthographic Variants: 
cuauhtlīlli

half-burned charcoal (see Karttunen)

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Cuauhtliztac.

Orthographic Variants: 
Cuauhtlyzt[a]c, Quauhtliztac, Quauhtliztactzin

a person's name (attested as male); for example, this name was carried by a don Juan Quauhtliztactzin of Tetzcoco at the time of the Spanish invasion (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, 186–187.

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cuauhtlotli.

Orthographic Variants: 
cuauhtlohtli

Peregrine Falcon, a bird (see Hunn, attestations)

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cuauhtoca.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtoca
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cuauhtocani.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtocani

one who plants trees (see attestations)

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cuauhtocquechia.

kwɑwtoːkketʃiɑː
Orthographic Variants: 
cuauhtōcquechiā

to stake something out (see Karttunen)

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cuauhtoctli.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtoctli
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cuauhtoctli.

kwɑwtoːktɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
cuauhtōctli

stake, forked stick set in the ground (see Karttunen)

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cuauhtoltecayo.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtultecayo, quauhtoltecayo

something carved, or a piece of art carved in wood (see Molina)

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cuauhtomatl.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtomatl
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cuauhtontli.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtontli
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cuauhtopilli.

kwɑwtoːpiːlli
Orthographic Variants: 
cuauhtōpīlli

cross decorated with flowers (see Karttunen)

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cuauhtoquia.

kwɑwtoːkiɑː
Orthographic Variants: 
cuauhtōquiā

to stake something out (see Karttunen)

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cuauhtotol.

kwɑwtoːtol
Orthographic Variants: 
cuauhtōtol

crested guan, a bird somewhat pheasant-like in appearance (Penelope purpurascens) (see Karttunen)

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cuauhtotolin.

Orthographic Variants: 
cuauhtotoli, quauhtotolin, quauhtotoli

Wild Turkey, a bird (see Hunn, attestations)

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cuauhtotomatl.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhtotomatl
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cuauhtotopoctli.

Orthographic Variants: 
cuauhtotopotli, quauhtotopoctli, quauhchochopitli, quauhtatala, cuauhchochopitli, cuauhtatala

Golden-fronted Woodpecker, a bird (see Hunn, attestations); the assumption is that the cuauhtotopotli and the cuauhtotopoctli are the same bird; this may require further research

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