a female boss or a woman who owns enslaved human beings (see Molina)
Orthographic Variants:
ciua tecuyutl, cihua tecuyutl, cihua tecuhyutl
Alonso de Molina:
ciua tecuyutl. ama o señora de esclauos. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 22v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.