divine women; spirits of women who died in childbirth (central Mexico, sixteenth century) Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, 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), chapter 29.
woman; wife (when possessed); also, the name of a person, attested in sixteenth-century Morelos; also, the word for uterus and possibly hymen (see Molina, Karttunen, and Lockhart)
See also zohuatl, for additional attestations.
1. woman. 2. female. 3. godmother of a boy. 4. goddaughter of a man. 5. s.o.’s wife.
a child of Tlacateotzin (ruler of Tlatelolco) and Tlacateotzin's aunt-wife, Xiuhcanahualtzin
(central Mexico, seventeenth century) Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 112–113.
for someone, in this case specifically a warrior, to act like a woman
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.