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Ihuian.

Headword: 
Ihuian.
Principal English Translation: 

a personal name; a ruler's name in Tetzcoco (see attestations)

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Ihuían (Hernando Pimentel): Significa el prudente, el modesto o reservado. Los dos pies representados son también expresión de la misma idea: mansamente, con tiento, paso a paso Víctor M. Castillo F., "Relación Tepepulca de los señores de México Tenochtitlan y de Acolhuacan," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 11 (1974), 183–225, y ver la pág. 193.

themes: 
Politics, Power, Governance