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tohueyo.

Headword: 
tohueyo.
Principal English Translation: 

outsider, foreigner (see Molina and Sahagún)
Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/tohueyo

Orthographic Variants: 
tohuenyo
Attestations from sources in English: 

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

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Ma ximomaxtli, ma ximotlapacho. Niman quilui: "Ca zan ye tiuhque." = Ponte el maxtle, tápate. A lo cual respondió el Tohuenyo: "Pues nosotros así somos." [En otras palabras, el Tohuenyo y su gente andaba desnudo--SW.]
Miguel León-Portilla, Erótica nahuatl (México: El Colegio Nacional y Artes de México y el Mundo, 2018), 10–11.