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peuhcayotl.

Headword: 
peuhcayotl.
Principal English Translation: 

the beginning, the commencement of something, or the base of a column (see Molina)

Alonso de Molina: 

peuhcayotl. comienzo, o principio de algo, o basa de coluna.
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 also: tzintiliztli, and ytzin ypeuhca.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario de la lengua mexicana, Julius Platzman, ed. (1880) 88.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Ytzonteco ypeuhca yn testamento = Cabeza y principio deste testamento (Tulancingo, México, 1577)
Vidas y bienes olvidados: Testamentos indígenas novohispanos, vol. 2, Testamentos en náhuatl y castellano del siglo XVI, eds., Teresa Rojas Rabiela, Elsa Leticia Rea López, Constantino Medina Lima (Mexico: Consejo Nacional de Ciencias Tecnología, 1999), 184–185.