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cuahuic.

Headword: 
cuahuic.
Principal English Translation: 

a ruler of Tlatelolco in the Spanish colonial period (see the Florentine Codex); see also our entry for Cuahuiconoc (which combines the two components of the name that we see separated in the attestation from the Florentine Codex)

Orthographic Variants: 
Quauic, Quaujc, Quahuic
Attestations from sources in English: 

Don Iuan quaujc onoc, ic nauj tlatocat in tlatilulco chicoxiujtl = Don Juan Quauic onoc [was] the fourth, and ruled Tlatilulco seven years. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 8 -- Kings and Lords, no. 14, Part IX, 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, 1951), 8.