a nun
(partly a loanword from Spanish, padre, father, priest)
(ca. 1582, Mexico City) Luis Reyes García, ¿Como te confundes? ¿Acaso no somos conquistados? Anales de Juan Bautista (Mexico: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, Biblioteca Lorenzo Boturini Insigne y Nacional Basílica de Guadalupe, 2001), 144–145.
(in the) women's quarters (Lockhart); also, a person's name (attested male)
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), 215.
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.