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Cuauhnahuac.

Headword: 
Cuauhnahuac.
Principal English Translation: 

place name Cuernavaca (literally: "Near the Trees," or "Near the Woods") (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cuauhnāhuac
IPAspelling: 
kwɑwnɑːwɑk
Frances Karttunen: 

CUAUHNĀHUAC place name Cuernavaca (literally: ‘near the trees’) / cerca de los árboles (C) [(1)Cf.20v]. See CUAHU(I)-TL, -NĀHUAC.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 62.

Attestations from sources in English: 

yz ca yn itequivh y napovaltica quicava ze çotli y cuauhnavacayotli = Here is the tribute that he delivers every 80 days: one quarter-length of a Cuernavaca cloak. (Cuernavaca region, ca. 1540s) Please not that there are many additional references to Cuernavaca cloaks in these censuses.
The Book of Tributes: Early Sixteenth-Century Nahuatl Censuses from Morelos, ed. and transl. S. L. Cline, (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 1993), 128–129.