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a woman's name; in the Historia Tolteca Chichimeca, she is mentioned as being a wife (zohuatl), apparently of an Olmec Xicalanca tlahtoani (sixteenth century, Quauhtinchan)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 152.

to remove weeds (see Molina)

ʃiwokwil

caterpillar (see Karttunen)

ʃiwpɑn

a year’s time (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
xiuhpoualli, xiuhpovalli

yearly account (from Camilla Townsend); year count; something like European annals

Orthographic Variants: 
xiuhpohualnimiliztli

year count of the life of someone

to remove weeds (see Molina)

to remove weeds (see Molina)

apparently a motmot, perhaps the blue-crowned Mexican motmot
See the Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, where Wimmer (2004) mentions the "momot" (in the French spelling) and cites Bierhorst, who notes that the feathers are green. https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/xiuhquechol/76351.

Orthographic Variants: 
xiuhquechol

Lesson's Marmot, a bird (see Hunn, attestations)

ʃiwkilkoːɑːtɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
xiuhquilcōātl

a type of snake (see Karttunen)

a green herb; also a paste or cake for dyeing things blue/green (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
Xiuhquillan(?)

a place name, one of the boundaries of the Nonohualca of Tollan (Tula)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, 4v. Taken from the image of the folio published in Dana Leibsohn, Script and Glyph: Pre-Hispanic History, Colonial Bookmaking, and the Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca (Washington D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 2009), 65. Paleography and regularization of this toponym by Stephanie Wood.

Orthographic Variants: 
Xiuhteuctli, Xihuitl Tecuhtli

this divine force was one of the earliest known deities of Mesoamerica, the "old, old" divine force of fire; references to Xiuhtecuhtli are prominent in the Templo Mayor, even if he appears as a "minor god" in the Florentine Codex, according to Leonardo López Luján (referenced by Patrick Hajovsky); Hajovsky adds that "Xiuhtecuhtli conflates notions of turquoise as fire-heat (tonalli) and time, and as H. B. Nicholson attests, he was "the archetype of all rulers." These attributes originated in the father of Tezcatlipoca, who was Huehueteotl-Xiuhtecuhtli, also attributed as the "progenitor of all the gods" according to Thelma Sullivan.
Patrick Thomas Hajovsky, On the Lips of Others: Moteuczoma's Fame in Aztec Monuments and Rituals (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2015), 88.

a personal name, attested male in Mexico City in 1558 (see attestations)

1. a very tall woman. 2. an old woman.
1. a very tall man. 2. an old man.

a turquoise mosaic design (see attestations)

the color turquoise (see Molina)

ʃiwtik

last year, a year ago (see Karttunen)