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Wild Turkey, a bird (see Hunn, attestations)

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

a door to a house; it is also called huapaltzaccayotl
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. 119v. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/119v?spTexts=&nhTexts= . Accessed 12 November 2025.

to put a wooden exterior on a house; or to put wood on the roof (see Molina)

road or path among trees (see Karttunen)

wooden bars, grilles, split rails, etc. (see Molina)

wooden grille, bars, railing; or, lattice work (see Molina)

a wooden structure or frame where captives were tied and then shot with arrows as a form of human sacrifice/offerings (sixteenth century, Quauhtinchan)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 185.