affinal relative (see Lockhart); a relative through marriage (see Molina)
James Lockhart, The Nahuas after the Conquest: A Social and Cultural History of the Indians of Central Mexico, Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992), 495, n. 56.
“woman-house” (possibly a common room) -- probably a civil category of property, possibly part of a woman's dowry
S. L. Cline, Colonial Culhuacan, 1580-1600: A Social History of an Aztec Town (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1986), 235. See also Sarah Cline, "The Testaments of Culhuacan," in James Lockhart, Lisa Sousa, and Stephanie Wood, eds., Sources and Methods for the Study of Postconquest Mesoamerican Ethnohistory (Eugene, OR: Wired Humanities Project, e-book, 2007.
a deity, literally "female serpent," an earth goddess; also referred to the second highest political office in the Tenochcan Mexica political structure, after the tlahtoani Susan Kellogg, Law and the Transformation of Aztec Culture, 1500-170 (Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995), 222; and Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 105.