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amanqui.

Headword: 
amanqui.
Principal English Translation: 

one who divines with water, or the person who makes the beverage from cacao (see Molina)

Alonso de Molina: 

amanqui. lo mesmo es que amanani (adiuino que adiuina en agua, o el que haze cacao para beuer).
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 4v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

themes: 
Beverages
Chocolate, Cocoa, Cacao
Nahuales, Sorcery, Divining
Water