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chicohuictli.

Headword: 
chicohuictli.
Principal English Translation: 

a digging stick or plow, with a sideways or crooked element? (see also huictli)

Attestations from sources in English: 

"The Culhuacan texts...mention a chicohuictli, chico- being an element meaning 'sideways, to one side, crooked,' etc. (TC, doc. 75, p. 260). Whether this is different from the ordinary huictli I am not prepared to say."
James Lockhart, The Nahuas after the Conquest: A Social and Cultural History of the Indians of Central Mexico, Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992), 531, n281.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Yoan centetl chicohuictli quipiaz yn nonantcin yoan yn tlapechtli çan ihuicallo yn calli = Y una coa o tarecua guarde mi madre, e cama de madera con la casa de ella (Xochimilco, 1572)
Vidas y bienes olvidados: Testamentos indígenas novohispanos, vol. 2, Testamentos en náhuatl y castellano del siglo XVI, eds., Teresa Rojas Rabiela, Elsa Leticia Rea López, Constantino Medina Lima (Mexico: Consejo Nacional de Ciencias Tecnología, 1999), 160–161.

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