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Coanan.

Headword: 
Coanan.
Principal English Translation: 

a personal name that appears on the Codex Santa María de Asunción, meaning "Snake Protector"
Marc Zender, "One Hundred and Fifty Years of Nahuatl Decipherment," The PARI Journal 8:4 (Spring 2008), 26.

themes: 
Animals, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, Fish, etc.
Family, Kinship, Descent
Names (personal or theonyms)
See also: 
coatl.
nantli.