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cehuan.

Headword: 
cehuan.
Principal English Translation: 

a type of bird, perhaps a talking bird; perhaps like the zacuan
Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, citing Wimmer 2004, who draws from Clavijero and Hernández. English translation, by Stephanie Wood, draws from the French.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See the name Cehuanotl in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs (harvesting from Matrícula de Huexotzinco, f. 663 verso). The same Nahua name is found in Native Wills from the Colonial Americas, Dead Giveaways in a New World, eds. Mark Z. Christensen and Jonathan Truitt (2015), 210. Cehuanotl adds the -yotl suffix (modified) to the cehuan stem, resulting in "having the nature of."

themes: 
Animals, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, Fish, etc.
See also: 
zacuan.
zacuantototl.