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cuauhicuiloa.

Headword: 
cuauhicuiloa.
Principal English Translation: 

to carve in wood; to write on wood (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
quauh ihcuiloa, quauh icuiloa, cuauh icuiloa
Alonso de Molina: 

quauh icuiloa. ni. (pret. oniquauh icuilo.) entallar en madera.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 86v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

themes: 
Wood, wooden material
Writing, Literacy