the indigenous ruler of the Toluca (Tolocan, Tollocan) region in the time of Axayacatl and the Triple Alliance that was centered in Tenochtitlan; Cachimaltzin was not happy that the central Mexicans were taking Tolucan territory and distributing it among settlers from Tlatelolco, Azcapotzalco, Tetzcoco, and Tlacopan (Tacuba); Cachimaltzin's successor was Mazacoyotzin (see attestations) Pedro Carrasco, The Tenochca Empire of Ancient Mexico (2012), 258; and Pedro Carrasco, Estructura político-territorial del imperio tenochca (2016).
a word used by Spaniards for an indigenous ruler; tlatoani or tlahtoani, with the glottal stop (a loanword from Spanish, and before that, from Taíno) The Tlaxcalan Actas: A Compendium of the Records of the Cabildo of Tlaxcala (1545-1627), eds. James Lockhart, Frances Berdan, and Arthur J.O. Anderson (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1986), 153.
to get a part of one’s body or clothing smeared with excrement.
#embarrar. nimo. persona pisa deshecho de un animal domestico o un animal salvaje. “jose cuando va la milpa siempre se embarra desecho de vaca porque es muy ciego.”
for silence to reign, for a place to be abandoned James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 212.
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 212.