cuauhxincayotl.

Headword:

cuauhxincayotl.

Principal English Translation:

the occupation of carpentry (carpenter) (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants:

quauhxincayotl

Alonso de Molina:

quauhxincayotl. officio de carpinteria.
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.

Attestations from sources in English:

See an image that represents cuauhxincayotl in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

amo mochintin in tlatocatizque nopilhuan ynic quitecac ȳ tlahuitolli in tlatecayotl, in quauhxincayotl. yn tlacuilocayotl = Not all of my sons will be rulers. Hence he laid out [for them the various professions:] the [art of using the] bow, the lapidary art, wood sculpture, painting. (central Mexico, early seventeenth century)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 1, 134–135.

themes:

Occupations, Responsibilities