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mahuizyotl.

Headword: 
mahuizyotl.
Principal English Translation: 

honor, fame

Orthographic Variants: 
mauizyotl, mauizio
Attestations from sources in English: 

in ipocyo, in ayauhyo: quitoznequi: imauizo, itenyo: anozo aca ueca oya, ayamo poliui in itenyo, in imauizzo = smoke and mist, meaning his fame and glory, had not yet vanished; or, about someone who had gone far away and whose fame and glory had not faded Thelma D. Sullivan, "Nahuatl Proverbs, Conundrums, and Metaphors, Collected by Sahagún," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 4 (1963), 144–145.

mauizio = honored (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 111.