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Quetzalpetlatl.

Orthographic Variants: 
Quetzalpetla

a name, meaning Quetzal-feather-woven-mat, held by an indigenous woman of Huexotzinco, elder sister to Xayacamachan and a mother of two boys, Temayahui and Cihuateotl; the boys were accused of adultery and fled to Tlaxcala, where they were turned away and told to go to Tetzcoco, to seek out Nezahualcoyotl, who received them well

(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, 184–185.

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Quetzaltehueyac.

the name of a cultural hero, a Tolteca Chichimeca who settled in Tollan with three other Tolteca Chichimecas and four Nonoalca Chichimecas, according to the Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca or Anales de Cuauhtinchan. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Literaturas de Anahuac y del Incario / Literatures of Anahuac and the Inca, ed. Miguel León-Portilla (Mexico City: Siglo Veintiuno Editories, 2006), 192. See also: Dana Leibsohn, Script and Glyph: Pre-Hispanic History, Colonial Bookmaking and the Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca (Washington D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2009), 29.

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Quetzaltepec.

a place name (see attestations)

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Quetzalteuctli.

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Queçaltecuhtl

a person's name (attested as male)

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quetzalteuh cozcateuh ipan nimitzmati.

for a parent to have great love for the child (a metaphor) (see Molina)

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quetzalteuh.

ketsɑltew

in the manner of quetzal feathers, as something very precious (see Karttunen)

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quetzaltezolocton.

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quetzalteçolocton

Green-winged Teal, a bird (see Hunn, attestations)

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quetzaltica chalchiuhtica nitlanextia.

to shine with precious stones and gems and other precious items that one might be adorned with (see Molina)

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quetzaltototl.

the quetzal bird, prized for its long green feathers; this word can also stand for the feathers themselves; typically, the birds and the feathers were obtained through trade/tributes from peoples in Central America

For a beautiful photo of a quetzaltototl, see this one hosted by Mexicolore:
https://www.mexicolore.co.uk/images-6/613_01_2.jpg

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quetzaltzontecomayo.

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quetzaltzontecomaio

golden banners decorated with quetzal bird feathers (see Mikulska, citing the Florentine Codex)

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quetzaluexotl.

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Quetzalxoch.

the name of a girl who died at Mount Tepetzinco, in or near Mexico Tenochtitlan; the location of the death was a site where child sacrifices (called "human banners," or tlacatetehuitl) were made to the rain deities; her paper vestments were blue

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), 43.

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quetzalxoxouhcapahtli.

branches of this plant were used for making a medicine aimed at curing a weakness of the hands

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), 39 [26r.].

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quetziloa.

ketsiloɑ

to go up on one's toes (see Molina), to stand on tiptoes

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quetzilpaina.

to walk quickly; or, to run along on tip toes (see Molina)

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quetzoma.

kehtsomɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
quehtzoma

to bite something, someone (See Karttunen)

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quetzontli.

ketsontɬi

long hair worn over the nape of the neck (see Molina)

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quetztia.

to build, construct

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quetzticac.

ketstihkɑk

to be standing (see Molina)

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quetzuma.

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quetzuma

to bite or give bites (see Molina)

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