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maceuhqui.

Headword: 
maceuhqui.
Principal English Translation: 

dancer (see Molina); also, a person's name

Orthographic Variants: 
Maçeuhqui
IPAspelling: 
mɑːseːwki
Alonso de Molina: 

maceuhqui. baylador o danzador.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 50v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

maceuhque (plural) = dancers

yn iyoquich ytoca maçeuhqui = Her husband is named Maceuhqui. (Cuernavaca region, ca. 1540s)
The Book of Tributes: Early Sixteenth-Century Nahuatl Censuses from Morelos, ed. and transl. S. L. Cline, (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 1993), 162–163.