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tlaxinqui.

Headword: 
tlaxinqui.
Principal English Translation: 

carpenter
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, 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), 27.

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑʃiːnki
Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents tlaxinqui in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

Tlaxinqui, quauhxinqui tlatepuzuiani quauhtlaçani tlaxeloani, tlatzaianani, tlatzontequini, tlatequini, tlamatepeoani, tlatlatlilhuiani = The carpenter -- the woodcutter, the axe-wielder, the feller of trees, splitter [of wood], chopper [of wood], topper [of trees]; the cutter, the trimmer of branches, the user of the wedge. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, 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), 27.

tlaxinqui totoltepec quimana domin ome = The carpenters of Totoltepec give 2 tomines. (Coyoacan, mid-sixteenth cent.)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 25, 146–147.