someone in authority, someone with power (see Karttunen); someone who makes something, often a suffix on a term for a certain occupation
Orthographic Variants:
chīuhqui
IPAspelling:
tʃiːwki
Frances Karttunen:
CHĪUHQUI someone in authority, someone with power / mayor (Z), autoridad, poderoso (Z) [(5)Zp.17,82,100,152,155]. This item is abundantly attested with an incorporated object, for example CACCHĪUHQUI ‘shoemaker,’ but only in Z does it appear as a free form. See CHĪHU(A). Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 53.