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Chalchiuh.

Headword: 
Chalchiuh.
Principal English Translation: 

a person's name (attested as male)

Attestations from sources in English: 

ytoca chalchiuh = named Chalchiuh [male, married to a woman named Tecapan] (Cuernavaca region, ca. 1540s)
The Book of Tributes: Early Sixteenth-Century Nahuatl Censuses from Morelos, ed. and transl. S. L. Cline, (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 1993), 166–167.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

quito testigo no toca Antonio Chalchiuh...ompa nochan Quauhxomolco...ninemi at ya onpoual xivitl onmatlactli = dijo el testigo, me llamo Antonio Chachiuh...alla vivo en Quauhxomolco...tengo cincuenta años (Tlaxcala, 1567)
Catálogo de documentos escritos en náhuatl, siglo XVI, vol. I (Tlaxcala: Gobierno del Estado de Tlaxcala y el Archivo Histórico del Estado de Tlaxcala, 2013), 229.