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huei huauhquilitl.

This plant is pictured and glossed in the Florentine Codex Book 11, folio 134r., and it is described on folio 135v. It is a small, bitter, wild amaranth. As it matures, it gets even more bitter. It can be cooked in a pot.

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. 134r. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/134r . Accessed 18 November 2025.

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huei huinoehuatl.

Orthographic Variants: 
uei uinoehuatl

a leather container for wine (see Molina; partly a loan word, huino = vino = wine)

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Huei Pachtli.

Orthographic Variants: 
hueipachtli, Huey Pachtli, hueypachtli

a festival, a month of 20 days

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huei tecpan.

Orthographic Variants: 
uei tecpan, huey tecpan

royal houses or palaces of great lords (see Molina)

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huei tecpancalli.

Orthographic Variants: 
uei tecpancalli, huey tecpancalli

royal houses or palaces of great lords (see Molina)

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Huei Tecuilhuitl.

Orthographic Variants: 
Huey Tecuilhuitl, Uei tecuilhuitl

a month for feasts and sacrificial offerings, the eighth month
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 2 -- The Ceremonies, no. 14, Part III, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1951), 91.

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huei teupixca titlaniztli.

Orthographic Variants: 
uei teupixca titlaniztli
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huei teupixcanahuatilli.

Orthographic Variants: 
uei teupixcanahuatilli
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huei teupixcatlatocayotl.

Orthographic Variants: 
uei teupixcatlatocayotl
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huei tlacualizpan.

Orthographic Variants: 
uei tlaqualizpan, huei tlaqualizpan
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huei tlamachioti.

Orthographic Variants: 
uei tlamachioti
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huei tlatole.

Orthographic Variants: 
uei tlatole
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huei tlatoliztli.

Orthographic Variants: 
uei tlatoliztli
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huei tlatolli.

Orthographic Variants: 
huey tlahtolli, uei tlatolli, huey tlatolli, huey tlatolli, huei tlahtolli

speech that is grand and lofty (see Molina); huey tlatolli is the more common spelling in early Nahuatl

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huei tlonemitiani.

Orthographic Variants: 
uei tlonemitiani

someone who raises and cares for falcons (see Molina)

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Huei Tozoztli.

Orthographic Variants: 
Huey toçoztli, Huey Tozoztli

the name of a month of twenty days
James Lockhart, We People Here: Nahuatl Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico, Repertorium Columbianum v. 1 (Los Angeles: UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1993), 176, 178.

also, the name of the fourth month of the pre-Columbian Nahua calendar; also a spring festival (see the Codex Borbonicus)

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huei vino xiquipilli.

Orthographic Variants: 
ueiuinoxiquipilli, hueivinoxiquipilli

a wine skin (see Molina)

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huei yeliztli.

Orthographic Variants: 
uei yeliztli
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huei.

weːi
Orthographic Variants: 
huey, uey, vey, hueyi, huēi

very, big, great, large (Molina, Karttunen, and Lockhart)

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hueia.

Orthographic Variants: 
ueia
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