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cuaxochnamiqui.

Headword: 
cuaxochnamiqui.
Principal English Translation: 

to border on, to share a boundary with; or, if a noun, a shared boundary (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
quaxochnamiqui
Alonso de Molina: 

quaxochnamiqui. nite. (pret. onitequaxochnamic.) alindar heredad conla de otro.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 88r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

quaxochnamiqui tito. (pret. otitoquaxochnamicque.) alindar heredad conla de otro.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 88r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

toquaxochnamiqui español = lindamos con un español (Xochimilco, 1650)
Vidas y bienes olvidados: Testamentos en náhuatl y castellano del siglo XVII, vol. 3, Teresa Rojas Rabiela, et al, eds. (México: CIESAS, 2002), 238–239.