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carpenter
See an image that represents tlaxinqui in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).
Tlaxinqui, quauhxinqui tlatepuzuiani quauhtlaçani tlaxeloani, tlatzaianani, tlatzontequini, tlatequini, tlamatepeoani, tlatlatlilhuiani = The carpenter -- the woodcutter, the axe-wielder, the feller of trees, splitter [of wood], chopper [of wood], topper [of trees]; the cutter, the trimmer of branches, the user of the wedge. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
tlaxinqui totoltepec quimana domin ome = The carpenters of Totoltepec give 2 tomines. (Coyoacan, mid-sixteenth cent.)