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Cuitlahuac.
Headword:
Cuitlahuac.
Principal English Translation:
a place name for an indigenous community in the chinampa zone of the southern basin of Mexico; could be translated as at or near the excrement/excrescence, place of excrement/excrescence, or where there is excrement/excrescence; see also our entry Cuitlahua (for the personal name)
Attestations from sources in English:
auh ynic cenchinampa yn culhuacan yn cuitlahuac. oc cenca vmpa yn ciudad xochimilco yn tlatlacauh = And in the whole chinampa district, in Colhuacan and Cuitlahuac and especially in the city of Xochimilco, there was damage (central Mexico, 1611)
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