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tecuilhuitl.

Headword: 
tecuilhuitl.
Principal English Translation: 

feast day of the lords, a day in the calendar for celebrating the lords; the eighth annual festival; also called hueyi (or huei) tecuilhuitl

Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, citing Wimmer 2004, who cites the Florentine Codex, Book 2, ff. 96–107, and the Primeros Memoriales, f. 251r. "calendrier, 'hueyi têcuilhuitl', n.propre de la 8ème fête annuelle." Translated here from French to English by Stephanie Wood

Orthographic Variants: 
teucilhuitl
themes: 
Religion (Indigenous)
Social Hierarchy, Commoners, Elites
See also: 
teuctli.
ilhuitl.