nahualpolihui.

Headword:

nahualpolihui.

Principal English Translation:

to defeat through trickery (see attestation)

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. 2, 76–77.

Orthographic Variants:

nahualpollihui

Attestations from sources in English:

oiuhqui yn ynic nahualpolliuhque ynic chimaltlacuecuepaltica polliuhque yn azteca mexitin chichimeca huehuetque ynic quiytztinenque ynic quimaceuhque tlalli = Thus it was that the Azteca Mexitin Chichimeca ancestors were ambushed, defeated by trickery, through the reversing of the shields when they were attending to the obtaining of land. (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. 2, 76–77.

themes:

War, Conflict