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chicueilhuitequipane.

Headword: 
chicueilhuitequipane.
Principal English Translation: 

a laborer who works by the week, one who performs tribute labor on a weekly basis, where a week is considered "eight days" (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
chicueilhuitequippane
Alonso de Molina: 

chicueilhuitequippane. semanero.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 20v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

chicueilhuitequippaneque. semaneros.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 20v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

themes: 
Labor, Work, Labor Concerns
Numbers, Math
Time, Calendar, Frequency
Tributes, Taxation, Service