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cihuayo.

Headword: 
cihuayo.
Principal English Translation: 

a womanizer(?)

Orthographic Variants: 
ciuayo, -cihuāyō
IPAspelling: 
siwɑːjoːtɬ or siwɑːjo
Alonso de Molina: 

ciuayo. persona que se sirue de mugeres.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 22v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

–CIHUĀYŌ. S gives this with a double vowel medially and an absolutive suffix and analyzes it as a compound of CIHUĀ–TL and ĀYŌ–TL. But C has this in a section with –OQUICHYŌ, 'semen,' both apparently inalienably possessed forms of the corresponding nouns, although it is not impossible that –YOH is intended. M also has cihuayotl, 'vulva.'

themes: 
Behavior, Personality
Sexuality, Fertility, Reproduction
Women, Men, Gender
See also: 
-cihuayo.
cihuayotl.