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cuauhticanemi.

Headword: 
cuauhticanemi.
Principal English Translation: 

part of a metaphorical expression meant to refer to vassals, commmoners, macehuales: quilticanemi (those who pick quelites), quauhticanemi (those who gather firewood)

(sixteenth century, Quauhtinchan)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 153, nota 5.

Orthographic Variants: 
quauhticanemi
themes: 
Metaphors, Proverbs, Riddles
Social Hierarchy, Commoners, Elites