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tlalcouhqui.

Headword: 
tlalcouhqui.
Principal English Translation: 

land purchaser

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), 236.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

tlālli, pret. agentive of cōhua with -qui ending. 236

Attestations from sources in English: 

See also tlacohuani.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Auh yn tlalcouhqui yoan yn tlalnamaca yn ontlamanixtin niquimiximati yoan nican chaneque yn ipan in Tlatilulco Santiago = Y [la compradora y el vendedor] los conozco y son vecinos desta dicha Ciudad de México en Santiago Tlatilulco (Ciudad de México, 1585)
Luis Reyes García, Eustaquio Celestino Solís, Armando Valencia Ríos, et al, Documentos nauas de la Ciudad de México del siglo XVI (México: Centro de Investigación y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social y Archivo General de la Nación, 1996), 189.

themes: 
Markets, Commerce, Economy
Land Tenure