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techiuhqui.

Headword: 
techiuhqui.
Principal English Translation: 

one who governs, exercises control over people, one who creates or engenders people (See Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tēchīuhqui
IPAspelling: 
teːtʃiːwki
Frances Karttunen: 

TĒCHĪUHQUI one who governs, exercises control over people, one who creates or engenders people / el que gobierna, dirige a la gente (S) This is abundantly attested but only in B. All attestations are in possessed form, and this may be in suppletive relationship with absolutive TĒCHĪHUANI. See CHĪHU(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 216.

Attestations from sources in English: 

techiuhqui = progenitor, agent, or helper (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Personal communication, James Lockhart, in sessions analyzing Huehuetlatolli.

themes: 
Politics, Power, Governance