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pehualli.

Headword: 
pehualli.
Principal English Translation: 

something conquered, or vanquished (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
peualli
Alonso de Molina: 

peualli. cosa conquistada, o vencida.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 81r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

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

ca in mexica iehoan quipeoaltia, iehoan quitzintia, iehoan inpeoal in iauiotl = that the Mexica would start and commence the battle, that it would be on their initiative (Mexico City, sixteenth century) James Lockhart, We People Here: Nahuatl Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico, Repertorium Columbianum v. 1 (Los Angeles: UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1993), 144.

themes: 
Imperialism (Indigenous)
War, Conflict