a person who lives in the mountains, a savage (see Molina)
Orthographic Variants:
quauhtla chane
Alonso de Molina:
quauhtla chane. saluaje, o montañes. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 87r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.