CUAUHQUEQUĒX woodpecker / pájaro carpintero (Z) [(2)Zp.93,149]. Despite the discrepancy in vowel length, the second element appears to be related to QUEQUEXQUIYA ‘to have an itch,’ possibly ‘to scratch’ or ‘to be eaten away.’ See CUAHU(I)-TL, QUEQUEXQUIC. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 63.