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quixohuayan.

Headword: 
quixohuayan.
Principal English Translation: 

an exit

Huehuehtlahtolli. Testimonios de la antigua palabra, ed. Librado Silva Galeana y un estudio introductorio por Miguel León-Portilla (México: Secretaría de Educación Pública, Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1991), 66–67.

Orthographic Variants: 
quixouayan
IPAspelling: 
kiːʃowɑyɑːn
Alonso de Molina: 

quixouayan. puerta, o lugar por donde salen de casa.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 90v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

QUĪXOHUAYĀN main exterior door, exit / puerta, o lugar por donde salen de casa (M) [(1)Cf.91v]. The single attestation does not provide the HU or the long vowel of -YĀN, but the form is built on QUĪXOHUA, the nonactive form of QUĪZ(A), which is elsewhere attested, and the locative suffix -YĀN is abundantly attested with a long vowel. See QUĪZ(A), -YĀN.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 212.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Yhuan in canin quixohuayan, ahmo tehuatl achto tiquizaz = Y donde sea la salida no saldrás tú primero
Huehuehtlahtolli. Testimonios de la antigua palabra, ed. Librado Silva Galeana y un estudio introductorio por Miguel León-Portilla (México: Secretaría de Educación Pública, Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1991), 66–67.