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cochitlehualli.

Headword: 
cochitlehualli.
Principal English Translation: 

dream (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cochihtlēhualli
IPAspelling: 
kotʃihtɬeːwɑlli
Frances Karttunen: 

COCHIHTLĒHUAL-LI dream / sueño, ensueño (S) [(2)Cf.93v,114v]. See COCHIHTLĒHUA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 36.

Attestations from sources in English: 

in oqujmotlanevi in atl in tepetl, in oqujtemjc, in oqujcochitleuh = The city borrowed him; [it seemed that] it dreamed of him, it saw him in dreams (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 47.

themes: 
Dreams, Visions