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Lovely Cotinga, a bird (see Hunn, attestations)

a personal name; the name of a lord said to have descended from lords of Teotihuacan; his son was Mamalitzin, who lived in the time of the Spanish invasion and occupation

Pedro Carrasco, "Sucesión y alianzas matrimoniales en la disnastía Teotihuacana," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 11 (1974), 235–241, see p. 239.

to cover something with turquoise mosaic pieces
Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, citing A. Wimmer (2004), https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/xiuhtzacua/76426

seventh ruler of the Toltecs in Tollan (Tula), a woman

Anónimo mexicano, ed. Richley H. Crapo and Bonnie Glass-Coffin (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2005), 8.

Orthographic Variants: 
xihuitzontli, xiuhhuitzolli

turquoise hair, turqoise diadem (see attestations, Olko); xihuitzontli = a turquoise headdress
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 194.

ʃiwwiːwiːtɬɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
xiuhuiuitla

to remove weeds (see Molina)

turquoise nose-rod

Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 194.

a turquoise nose ornament (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Thelma Sullivan, "Tlatoani and tlatocayotl in the Sahagún manuscripts," Estudios de Cultura Nahuatl 14 (1980), 225–238. See esp. p. 233.

ʃiwyoh
Orthographic Variants: 
xiuhyoh

something grassy, leaf (see Karttunen)

small bamboo or cane splinters that penetrate or irritate the skin.
ʃiwyoːwɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
xiuhyōhua, xiuhyoua

for something to become grassy (see Karttunen)

ʃiwyoːwɑk
Orthographic Variants: 
xiuhyōhuac

something overgrown with grass (see Karttunen)

to cover something (such as the ground) with branches, flowers, or aromatic herbs, perhaps as part of a festival (see Molina and definitions of enramar)

ʃiwyoːtɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
xiuhyōtl

grassiness (see Karttunen)

ʃiwsɑːloːlistɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
xiuhzālōliztli

the art of mosaic work, sticking together green stones (see Karttunen)

ʃiwsɑːyoːl
Orthographic Variants: 
xiuhzāyōl

green fly (see Karttunen)

ʃiːʃɑ

to urinate or defecate (see Karttunen and Molina)

1. to defecate on s.t. 2. for a child to defecate in their clothing.
Orthographic Variants: 
xixiaua

big-bellied, pot-belled (see Molina)

a large butterfly (see Molina)