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tehuanyolque.

Headword: 
tehuanyolque.
Principal English Translation: 

(unpossessed sing., -huanyolqui) someone's relatives, bilateral kin unit

Susan Kellogg, Law and the Transformation of Aztec Culture, 1500-1700 (Norman and London: The University of Oklahoma Press, 1995), 226.

Orthographic Variants: 
teoaiulque
Attestations from sources in English: 

qujcentlaliaia in teoaiulque = assembled one's kinsmen (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, 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), 149.

themes: 
Family, Kinship, Descent