cuaxochtli

[ANTHONY APPLEYARD]

--- Yukitaka Inoue Okubo <takaio at PO.AIANET.NE.JP> wrote:
> Hello. Could anyone help me with the etymology of `cuaxochtli'
> (land border, lindero)? Does it have something to do
> with "cuaitl" and/or "xochitl"? In some colonial documents I'm
> reading, I've also seen the form "cuaxochitli" instead ... 

Uhh. `It-is-a-head-flower'. Was there a custom somewhere, of planting
flowering bushes to mark land borders?

Citlalyani