Cuaxochtli

[Michael McCafferty]

Quoting Yukitaka Inoue Okubo <takaio at PO.AIANET.NE.JP>:

> Michael,
> 
> I agree with you in many points.
> I started with "cuaxochtli", form which appears in Molina, but the colonial 
> documents I've been reading has many variations. Just some examples:
> quaxochitl, quaxochitli, quacxotli, quachxotli, quacxochi
> These documents generally have many orthografic problems.

This is true. But please note again that none of these has a "u", in reference 
to the unusual *cuauhxoch- suggestion.

There is a tremendous amount of variation in the items that you note above. 
The ones with "c" and "ch" are certainly curious. 

Michael