the house of the town; may refer to the support of the church and/or the residence of the local priest, given that this comes on the heels of a more specific statement about supporting the priests with food (Cuauhtinchan, Puebla, sixteenth century) Luis Reyes García, "Ordenanzas para el gobierno de Cuauhtinchan, año de 1559," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 10 (1972), 294–295.
atl tepetl, yn atl yn tepetl, altepetli, altebet, altebetl
town, pueblo; ethnic state; sovereign sociopolitical unit; community; literally, contains the elements atl, water, and tepetl, hill, natural features that might once have been appealing for choosing where to settle, e.g. the site of a natural mountain spring
land belonging to the town Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), 28.
to bathe oneself or another person; or to sacrifice and kill enslaved people as offerings to divinities, or to offer ornaments to the temple or church (see Molina and Karttunen)
1. to bathe s.o. or an animal. 2. to apply a medicinal liquid to s.o’s or s.t’s body.
1. Una perosna se echa agua o le echa agua y jabón a otro o algun animal porque esta socio. “Leobardo se baña porque esta socio”. 2. Una persona se echa o le echa agua y medicina a alguien o un animal porque esta enfermo. “Mi tía baña jacqueline con yerba medicinal porque no tiene hambre”.