Search Issues: Update 2026-09-16 - Repairs to some of our search pages are ongoing. Thank you for your continued patience!

Meanwhile, elements of the Advanced Search are working and the Alphabetical Listings are working, too.

xiuhcahua.

Headword: 
xiuhcahua.
Principal English Translation: 

to leave a piece of land fallow, to let the weeds grow (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
xiuhcaua
Alonso de Molina: 

xiuhcaua. nitla. (pret. onitlaxiuhcauh.) dexar hazer heruazal la heredad o viña por no la beneficiar.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 159v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

themes: 
Agriculture, Gardens, Stockraising