quequexquic.

Headword: 
quequexquic.
Principal English Translation: 

an edible root vegetable, thick and white; best cooked in pot
Sahagún, Bernardino de, Antonio Valeriano, Alonso Vegerano, Martín Jacobita, Pedro de San Buenaventura, Diego de Grado, Bonifacio Maximiliano, Mateo Severino, et al. Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España (Florentine Codex), Ms. Mediceo Palatino 218–20, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, MiBACT, 1577. Available at Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter, Alicia Maria Houtrouw, Kevin Terraciano, Jeanette Peterson, Diana Magaloni, and Lisa Sousa, bk. 11, fol. 129r. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/129r?spTexts=&nhTexts= . Accessed 16 November 2025.

Orthographic Variants: 
quequexqui
IPAspelling: 
kekeʃkik
Alonso de Molina: 

quequexquic. cosa que da comezon.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 89r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

QUEQUEXQUIC something that causes an itch / cosa que da comezón (M) [(1)Tp.177]. See QUEQUEXQUIYA.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 209.

themes: 
Food, Eating, Cooking
Plants, Trees, Flora