one of the seven calpolli that emerged from the Seven Caves; an ethnic group Fernando Alvarado Tezozomoc, Crónica mexicayotl; traducción directa del náhuatl por Adrián León (Mexico City: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1998), 26–27.
a title of a lord with governing, high judicial, or high military responsibilities; but also seen as a personal name, and an officer at the pueblo level (see attestations)
a deity; "Spear-House Enemy" -- an aspect of Tezcatlipoca, who was sometimes called Yaotl (Enemy), emphasizing his militarism; Tlacochcalco was also a term that designated the cardinal direction north and was part of the name given temples dedicated to Tezcatlipoca (along with Huitznahuac, relating to south) Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 110.
a daughter of Huehue Tezozomoctli and Tzihuacxochitzin (of Malinalco), she married Acoltzin, ruler of Culhuacan; they had a child named Xilomantzin
(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.
for all the people someplace to be nodding off to sleep.
# Personas que nada mas recae el cuello porque tienen sueño. “en la casa de mariana nada mas se mueren de sueño porque en la noche no duermen temprano.”
a person's name (usually male, although not always specified); also, Tlacochintzin, a principal merchant in the time of Moquiuixtzin in Tlatelolco (central Mexico, sixteenth century); the root of the name is the word for lance, spear, or javelin Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 9 -- The Merchants, No. 14, Part 10, 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, 1959), 2.