chiuhqui. | Nahuatl Dictionary

chiuhqui.

Headword:

chiuhqui.

Principal English Translation:

someone in authority, someone with power (see Karttunen);

or, someone who makes something, often a suffix on a term for a certain occupation

Orthographic Variants:

chīuhqui, -chiuhqui, -tlachiuhqui

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.

themes:

Occupations, Responsibilities