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cuauhtectli.

Headword: 
cuauhtectli.
Principal English Translation: 

cut wood; firewood; for a discussion of various kinds of wood that has been cut, including this term, see the Digital Florentine Codex, Book 11, f 119r., https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/book/11/folio/119r?spTexts=&nhTexts=

Orthographic Variants: 
quahtectli, quahtecctli, quatecctli, quauhtecctli, quauhtectli
Attestations from sources in English: 

yn quauhtectli xxxiiii = the clearing is 34 (Coyoacan, 1568) -- given as solar in the Spanish
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 11, 90–91, 91n5.

Ihuan xxx quauhtectli = And there are 30 (heaps of) firewood (Culhuacan, 1580)
Testaments of Culhuacan (provisionally modified first edition), eds. Sarah Cline and Miguel León-Portilla, online version http://www.history.ucsb.edu/cline/testaments_of_culhuacan.pdf, 19.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

onictlapachilhuito ce huapatli nicmacac yhuan mochin quauhtectli ynic tlamito yhuan mochi yn tlaxamanili ynic huel motlapacho = le teché, le di la plancha y morillos y le cubrí la casa (Coyoacan, 1607)
Vidas y bienes olvidados: Testamentos en náhuatl y castellano del siglo XVII, vol. 3, Teresa Rojas Rabiela, et al, eds. (México: CIESAS, 2002), 56–57.

themes: 
Landscape Features
Wood, wooden material
See also: 
cuahuitl.
tectli.