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cihuatontli.

Headword: 
cihuatontli.
Principal English Translation: 

little woman (see Molina); also, a person's name (attested as female)

Orthographic Variants: 
ciuatontli, Cihuaton
IPAspelling: 
siwɑːtoːntɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

ciuatontli. mugercilla.
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.

Attestations from sources in English: 

xochiteotl onca ymach ytoca çivato = Xochiteogl has a niece named Cihuaton. (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), 146–147.