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Cuauhnahuac.

Headword: 
Cuauhnahuac.
Principal English Translation: 

Cuernavaca, "close to the woods," a significant altepetl in what is now the state of Morelos, Mexico
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 231.

Orthographic Variants: 
Quauhnauac, Quauhnahuac
Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

quahuitl, -nāhuac. 231

Attestations from sources in English: 

hualla cihuapilli quauhnahuac quimocihuahuati yn tlahtohuani huitzilihuitzin…quichiuhtiaqu. yn huehue moteuhcçoma ynic ontetl ytoca ylhuicaminatzin = a noblewoman of Quauhnauac came; the ruler Huitzilihuitl married her. They begot Huehue Moteucçoma whose second name was Ilhuicamina.
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 1, 228, 229.

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