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ilhuitl quiza.

Headword: 
ilhuitl quiza.
Principal English Translation: 

the festival is observed
Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 68–69.

Orthographic Variants: 
ilhuitl quiça, iluitl quiça
Alonso de Molina: 

Ilhuitl oquiz. fiesta passada o celebrada.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, f. 37v.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Yhuan y n chichimeca ý çȋhuahuahuan, ynin Pilhuan, Zatepanían oquizque oquintzitzquiaya. ynomo-cauhcȃ tlaca = I:hua:n in Chichimeca i:ncihuahuan, in inpilhuan za:te:panian o:qui:zqueh, o:quintzi:zquia:ya in o:moca:uhcan tla:ca = And the wives and children of the Chichimeca afterwards came out and took hold of the men who remained
Anónimo mexicano, ed. Richley H. Crapo and Bonnie Glass-Coffin (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2005), 41.

ilhuiquixtia = to hold festivities
James Lockhart, personal communication. Appears in the Techialoyan manuscript from San Martín Ocoyacac, located in the Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Ms America No. 7.

yquac ylhuitzin quiz in San Diego = was when the feast day of San Diego was celebrated (early seventeenth century, central New Spain)
Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 68–69.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

huey cocoliztl quiçaco = Llegó una gran epidemia (Tlaxcala, 1662–1692)
Juan Buenaventura Zapata y Mendoza, Historia cronológica de la Noble Ciudad de Tlaxcala, transcripción paleográfica, traducción, presentación y notas por Luis Reyes García y Andrea Martínez Baracs (Tlaxcala y México: Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala, Secretaría de Extensión Universitaria y Difusión Cultural, y Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, 1995), 172–173.

themes: 
Religion (Indigenous)
Time, Calendar, Frequency