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Cuauhcoatl.

Headword: 
Cuauhcoatl.
Principal English Translation: 

a personal name, attested male as seen in San Diego Amanalco, part of Tenochtitlan, in 1563

Orthographic Variants: 
Quauhcoatl, Quauhcohuatl
Attestations from sources in English: 

thomas cuauhcoatl = Tomás Quauhcoatl (a person's name; the glyph next to the name gloss includes water, atl, a pot, comitl, and an eagle's head, quauhtli; interestingly, we do not have a serpent for coatl) (Tepetlaoztoc, sixteenth century)
Barbara J. Williams and H. R. Harvey, The Códice de Santa María Asunción: Facsimile and Commentary: Households and Lands in Sixteenth-Century Tepetlaoztoc (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1997), 100–101.

themes: 
Names (for people, deities)