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Acolhua.

a tlatoani (or tlahtoani, with the glottal stop) of Azcapotzalco, and a son-in-law of Xolotl (founder of the altepetl); Acolhua was sometimes confused with Acolhuanahuacatl in the colonial period; the son of Acolhua may have been the Tezozomoc of Azcapotzalco
María Castañeda de la Paz, Conflictos y alianzas en tiempos de cambio: Azcapotzalco, Tlacopan, Tenochtitlan y Tlatelolco (siglos XII al XVI), (México: Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas, UNAM, 2013), 211, 40–48.

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Acolhuacan.

ɑːkoːlwɑhkɑːn

place name for the realm of Tetzcoco (see Karttunen)

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acolli.

ɑhkolli

Orthographic Variants:

ahcolli, aculli

the shoulder (see Molina and Karttunen)

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Acolman.

ɑːkoːlmɑːn

Orthographic Variants:

Aculma

a placename (see Karttunen); once an important Nahua altepetl with 35 towns joining it in paying tributes (Codex Mendoza), today Acolman de Nezahualcoyotl is a city in the northern part of the State of Mexico, just north of Mexico City; Acolman was known for its dog market; it was the site of an Augustinian monastery in the Spanish colonial period, which still has remarkable murals (1560s–1580s) and an atrial cross

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Acolmecatl.

ɑːkoːlmeːkɑtɬ

a resident of Acolman (see Karttunen)

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Acolmiztli.

ɑːkoːlmistɬi

a personal name; this was the name carried by a lord of Tlatelolco; this Acolmiztli was the son of Tlacateotzin (ruler of Tlatelolco) and Xiuhtomiyauhtzin (central Mexico, seventeenth century)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 98–99, 112–113.

Another Acolmiztli was the son Xilomantzin (ruler of Coyoacan) and Izquixotzin (daughter of Tlacateotzin, a ruler of Tlatelolco, and Xiuhtomiyauhtzin). He was "only a nobleman," not a ruler, who also lived in Tlatelolco. (central Mexico, early seventeenth century)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 112–113.

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Acolnahuac.

near the river bend (a place name)
Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/content/acolnahuac-17v

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Acolnahuacatl Tzacualcatl.

Orthographic Variants:

Aculnahuacatl Tzaqualcatl, Aculnahuacatl Tzacualcatl

a son of Huehue Tezozomoctli and Tzihuacxochitzin (of Malinalco), he ruled in Tlacopan (mod. Tacuba) (central Mexico, seventeenth century)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 110–111.

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acolotl.

ɑːkoːloːtɬ

crayfish (see Karttunen)

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acoltetequi.

ɑhkoltehteki

to cut oneself in the shoulder (see Karttunen)

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Acoltzin.

a personal name; e.g. the name of a ruler of Culhuacan (eighth ruler), son of Nauhyotl Teuhctlamacazqui; Acoltzin fought with Chimalpopoca when the latter was ruler of Tenochtitlan; all according to Chimalpahin (central Mexico, seventeenth century)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 90–91, 106–107.

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