ancient yard (a measure) 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), 145.
an ingredient used in a medicine to treat someone who is spitting up blood
Martín de la Cruz, Libellus de medicinalibus indorum herbis; manuscrito azteca de 1552; segun traducción latina de Juan Badiano; versión española con estudios comentarios por diversos autores (Mexico: Fondo de Cultural Económica; Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, 1991), 33 [20r.].
for stickers or thorns to become embedded in one’s flesh.
#Entra una espina puntiajudo en el pie o la mano de una persona, o animal.” Cuando mi mama va a la milpa siempre se espina por que va nadamas con los pies descalzos”
a noble dignitary in Quauhtepec Malinalco; he had a daughter named Tzihuacxochitzin
(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, 110–111.
a personal name, hummingbird feather; held, for example, by a ruler of Mexico-Tenochtitlan (see Karttunen and Sahagún); also attested in Tetzcoco in the sixteenth century