name applied to several medicinal plants used to induce contractions during childbirth (Montanoa tomentosa, Montanea grandiflora, Eriocoma floribunda) (see Karttunen)
noblewoman, lady S. L. Cline, Colonial Culhuacan, 1580-1600: A Social History of an Aztec Town (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1986), 235.
literally, noblewomen; also considered sacred or diine forces and spirits of women who died in childbirth; they were believed to haunt people at crossroads (see attestations)
# cosa animal camina en los pasillos tiene muchas plumas y se hace nada mas bola, este animal mocuapelechtia y pone su huevo, persona lo come. “Andrés tiene una gallina y lo cuida mucho porque pone huevos diario nada mas afuera y no en el nido.”
one of the seven calpolli that emerged from the Seven Caves
Fernando Alvarado Tezozomoc, Crónica mexicayotl; traducción directa del náhuatl por Adrián León (Mexico City: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1998), 26–27.
a title in the military hierarchy of the Mexica (Santamarina Novillo); also, a person's name (attested as male) Carlos Santamarina Novillo, Nahuat-l Listserv post, May 1, 2007; translation from Spanish by Stephanie Wood
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 45.
women's temple (tentative) Jonathan Truitt, Sustaining the Divine in Mexico Tenochtitlan: Nahuas and Catholicism, 1523–1700 (Oceanside, CA: The Academy of American Franciscan History; Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2018), 18.
A female person in charge of people. Presumably, this officer, in addition to being a woman, had special responsibility for organizing or regulating women's activity, but no more is known at the present juncture. 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), 44.