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cuauhxima.

Headword: 
cuauhxima.
Principal English Translation: 

to do carpentry, to work wood (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cuauhxīma, quauhxima, quauxima, cuauxima
IPAspelling: 
kwɑwʃiːmɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

quauhxima. ni. (pret. oniquauhxin.) carpintear, labrar madera.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 87v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

CUAUHXĪM(A) pret: -XĪN to do carpentry, to work wood / carpintear, labrar madera (M) [(1)Bf.10v,(2)Zp.74,150]. See CUAHU(I)TL, XĪM(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 66.

Attestations from sources in English: 

navi pesos yCa omocovac açuelas yca quauhximaloaz comunidad = adzes to shave wood [for] the community were purchased for 4 pesos
[Note: adzes = pairs with the Spanish loanword azuelas. (SW)]
Kevin Terraciano, Codex Sierra (2021), 121 and 155.

themes: 
Occupations, Responsibilities
Wood, wooden material