chahuanantli.

Headword: 
chahuanantli.
Principal English Translation: 

stepmother (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
chauanantli
IPAspelling: 
tʃɑːwɑnɑːntɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

chauanantli. madrastra.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 19r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

chauanan. no. mi madrastra.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 19r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

CHĀHUANĀN-TLI stepmother / madrastra (M) [(1)Tp.129]. See CHĀHU(A), NĀN-TLI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 45.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

chāhuanān-(tli). chāhua-, pejorative element characterizing secondary and irregular familial relationships, nāntli.
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), 214.

Attestations from sources in English: 

in chaoanantli tlacpauitecqui. = The stepmother [is] one who has stepchildren. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, 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, 1961), 9.

auh no yepoalli nicmacatiuh y nochahuanantzin madalena = and I also give 60 to my stepmother Magdalena (Culhuacan, 1580)
Testaments of Culhuacan (provisionally modified first edition), eds. Sarah Cline and Miguel León-Portilla, online version http://www.history.ucsb.edu/cline/testaments_of_culhuacan.pdf, 10.

Nochahuanan = my stepmother.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 19r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

themes: 
Family, Kinship, Descent