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tozquihua.

Headword: 
tozquihua.
Principal English Translation: 

someone with a singing voice (see Karttunen); also, a person's name (attested male); a tecuhtli of Chalco

Orthographic Variants: 
tozquihuah
IPAspelling: 
toskiwɑh
Frances Karttunen: 

TOZQUIHUAH someone with a voice /el que tiene voz (K) [(1)Cf.55v]. C gives this without gloss as an example of the possessor derivation. See TOZQUI-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 249.

Attestations from sources in English: 

tozquivaia nictzotzonjiaio, in tezcatzintli = singing I beat the small mirror [part of the Song of Macuilxochitl)
Florentine Codex, transl. Anderson and Dibble., Book 2, The Ceremonies, p. 214.

aloson tozquihua = Alonzo Tozquihua (Tepetlaoztoc, sixteenth century)
Barbara J. Williams and H. R. Harvey, The Códice de Santa María Asunción: Facsimile and Commentary: Households and Lands in Sixteenth-Century Tepetlaoztoc (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1997), 138–139.