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to array oneself with gold chains and jewels (see Molina)

necklace, jewel, ornament, jewelry; or, a precious rock made into a rounded shape; or, rosary beads (see Molina, Karttunen, and Lockhart)

a string of (rosary?) beads used for counting (see Molina)

a woman's name; in the Historia Tolteca Chichimeca, she is mentioned as being a wife (zohuatl), apparently of an Olmec Xicalanca tlahtoani (sixteenth century, Quauhtinchan)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 152.

to turn yellow, to ripen (see Karttunen)

don Martín Cozmallintzin is said to have been the son of Machimalle, who was supposedly a son of "the lord Axayacatl"; such a genealogy links pre-contact with Spanish colonial times

(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, 104–105.

crayfish (see Karttunen)

cradle (see Karttunen)

a circular fan device of yellow parrot feathers
Justyna Olko, Turquoise Diadems and Staffs of Office: Elite Costume and Insignia of Power in Aztec and Early Colonial Mexico (Warsaw: Polish Society for Latin American Studies and Centre for Studies on the Classical Tradition, University of Warsaw, 2005), 147.