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Chalchihuatl.

Headword: 
Chalchihuatl.
Principal English Translation: 

the name given a fountain or well in the center of Tlaxcala; has at its root green stone and references the water

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

huel tehuanti ticpehualtique huel ytlacatia ynic meya yehuatl yn hualcalaqui tiaquizco pila yuh ticaxitico nican ytlan castillo yehuatl motenehua Chalchihuatl = Precisamente nosotros empezamos: desde su nacimiento, donde brota el agua, la que entra a la pila del mercado, así la hicimos llegar aquí al pie del castillo, la llamada Chalchihuatl.(Tlaxcala, 1662–1692)
Juan Buenaventura Zapata y Mendoza, Historia cronológica de la Noble Ciudad de Tlaxcala, transcripción paleográfica, traducción, presentación y notas por Luis Reyes García y Andrea Martínez Baracs (Tlaxcala and México: Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala, Secretaría de Extensión Universitaria y Difusión Cultural, y Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, 1995), 378–379.

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