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acuauhyotl.

Headword: 
acuauhyotl.
Principal English Translation: 

a water pipe (see Molina and attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
aquauhyotl
Alonso de Molina: 

Aquauhyotl. caño de agua.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua mexicana y castellana, 1571, (www.idiez.org.mx), f. 7r.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

yn acuauhyotl = caño de agua o arroyo (San Juan Teotihuacan, 1563)
Vidas y bienes olvidados: Testamentos indígenas novohispanos, vol. 2, Testamentos en náhuatl y castellano del siglo XVI, eds., Teresa Rojas Rabiela, Elsa Leticia Rea López, Constantino Medina Lima (Mexico: Consejo Nacional de Ciencias Tecnología, 1999), 138–139.

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