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cuitlaxcolli.

Headword: 
cuitlaxcolli.
Principal English Translation: 

entrails, intestines

IPAspelling: 
kwitɬɑʃkolli
Alonso de Molina: 

cuitlaxcolli. tripas.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 27v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

CUITLAXCOL-LI intestines / tripas (M) [(1)Tp.129,(1)Zp.157]. The second element seems related to CŌLOĀ ‘to curve, twist’ in spite of the vowel-length discrepancy. See CUITL(A)-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 74.

Attestations from sources in English: 

in tenitl yn cuextecatl yc pehuaz in yaoyotl onca[n] momanaz y[n] Matlalxochipa[n] cuitlaxcol atlauhtli yez etc. (Anales de Juan Bautista, f. 8v–9r, 1582) = The foreigner [tenitl], those from the Huaxteca will set out to make war, making their basecamp in Matlalxochipan. There they will fill a canyon with human innards.
Ezekiel G. Stear, Nahua Horizons: Writing, Persuasion, and Futurities in Colonial Mexico (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2025), 129.

ca much vncā [fol.31] icuiliuhtoc in tzontecomatl, nacaztli, iollotli, cuitlaxculli eltapachtli, tochichi, macpalli, xocpalli = for there were painted all severed heads, ears, hearts, entrails, livers, lungs, hands and feet (Mexico City, sixteenth century)
James Lockhart, We People Here: Nahuatl Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico, Repertorium Columbianum v. 1 (Los Angeles: UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1993), 128.

Aca icuitlaxcoltzin quitlatlamachica. Itechpa mitoa: in tlachichiuhqui, in iuhqui amantecatl, in uel quiyecchichioa in itlachioal. = Someone who arranges his intestines artistically. This is said of an artesan, such as a feather-artist, who does his work beautifully and designs it well.
Thelma D. Sullivan, "Nahuatl Proverbs, Conundrums, and Metaphors, Collected by Sahagún," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 4 (1963), 126–127.

Bird intestines (totocuitlaxcolli) are illustrated in the Digital Florentine Codex, Book 11, 60r.
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 60r, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/60r/images/0 Accessed 25 October 2025.

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