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nahui ihuipil.

Headword: 
nahui ihuipil.
Principal English Translation: 

a plant in the ginger family, zingiberaceae (family), "mardi gras" (see attestations)

Attestations from sources in English: 

nahui ihuipil = see the keywords for the relevant page in the Digital Florentine Codex (1570s, central Mexico)
Sahagún, Bernardino de, Antonio Valeriano, Alonso Vegerano, Martín Jacobita, Pedro de San Buenaventura, Diego de Grado, Bonifacio Maximiliano, Mateo Severino, et al. Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España (Florentine Codex), Ms. Mediceo Palatino 218–20, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, MiBACT, 1577. Available at Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter, Alicia Maria Houtrouw, Kevin Terraciano, Jeanette Peterson, Diana Magaloni, and Lisa Sousa, bk. 11, fol. 140v. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/140v/images/0 . Accessed 20 January 2026

nahui ihuipil = its four huipiles (?); perhaps the shape of the root is reminiscent of a woman's hand made blouse (huipilli) (SW)

themes: 
Food, Eating, Cooking
Plants, Trees, Flora
Textiles, Clothing
See also: 
nahui.
huipilli.