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pixquiztli.

Headword: 
pixquiztli.
Principal English Translation: 

the crop; the harvest

Orthographic Variants: 
pisquiztli
Attestations from sources in English: 

Cepaiauitl,... quinestia, inezca in pisquiztli. = Snow... It foretold, and was an omen of, [good] crops. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 7 -- The Sun, Moon, and Stars, and the Binding of the Venus, No. 14, Part VIII, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 19.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Auh yn pixquiztli mochin oc notech pohuiz = Y la cosecha, toda me ha de pertenecer (Xochimilco, 1582)
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), 246–247.

themes: 
Agriculture, Gardens, Stockraising