church bell; literally, dead-person-metal or death-metal, as the bells tolled fairly constantly in the sixteenth century as a result of all the loss of life during the epidemics (see Lockhart)
the deceased; or, possibly also the souls of the deceased
(early seventeenth century, central New Spain) Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 210–211.
marigold (Tagetes erecta); literally "death-flower," but the indigenous name for the large indigenous marigold related to All Souls' Day is cempohualxochitl (see Karttunen)