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Epcoatzin.

son of Huehue Tezozomoctli and Tzihuacxochitzin (of Malinalco), this man became a ruler in Atlacuihuayan

(central Mexico, 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, 110–111.

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epcohuacuacuilli tepictoton.

Orthographic Variants: 
epcouaquacuilli, epcohuaquacuilli

the epcoacuacuilli [priest of the] tepictoton, sculptures of small mountains
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 89.

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epcohuacuacuiltzin.

Orthographic Variants: 
epcovacuacuiltzin

he who ordered and saw to everything (a priest)

Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 83.

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epifanía.

epiphany
(a loanword from Spanish)

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epístola.

the Epistle; apparently somethng that could be preached by a subdeacon
(a loanword from Spanish)

(central Mexico, 1613)
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), 236–237.

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epitzahuac.

epitsɑːwɑk
Orthographic Variants: 
epitzāhuac

string bean (see Karttunen)

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epnepaniuhqui.

epnepɑniwki

crossed with seashells, a ring of linked seashells

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eptatapalcatl.

an oyster shell, a shell that will contain a pearl (see Molina)

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eptli.

eptɬi

a shell; or, the sea oyster (see Molina)

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epyollotli.

pearl(s)

Louise M. Burkhart, Before Guadalupe: The Virgin Mary in Early Colonial Nahuatl Literature, Institute for Mesoamerican Studies Monograph 13 (Albany: University at Albany, 2001), 56.

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Equehuac.

a person's name (attested male)

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equimitl.

eːkimitɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
ēquimitl

coral tree, colorín (Erythrina americana, Erythrina corallides ) (see Karttunen)

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equinoccial.

Orthographic Variants: 
equinocial

equinoctial, having to do with an equinox, happening at or near the time of an equinox

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era.

threshing floor

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), 217.

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escalera.

Orthographic Variants: 
escaleras, iscalera

stair

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escaño.

Orthographic Variants: 
escania

a bench or a seat with a back
(a loanword from Spanish)

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escaramán.

today, in parts of rural Mexico, a heavy harrow pulled by oxen and used to prepare the soil for sowing
(a loanword from Spanish)

Caterina Pizzigoni, ed., Testaments of Toluca (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2007), 248. A personal communication from Eliazar Hernández.

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esclavo.

an enslaved human being

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escopeta.

Orthographic Variants: 
escobeta

a shotgun
(a loanword from Spanish)

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escoplo.

a chisel, a woodworking tool (see attestations)

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