a personal name (attested female); she was married to Macuextzin, a Nonoalca teuctli (Cuauhtinchan, 16th c.) Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 140.
a reconnoiterer, a merchant disguised as an explorer, someone who helps lay the groundwork for imperial expansion ("los mercaderes y disimulados esploradores") (Sahagún, attestations)
envoy of the ruler Pedro Carrasco Pizana, The Tenochca Empire of Ancient Mexico: The Triple Alliance of Ancient Tenochtitlan, Tetzcoco, and tlacopan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999), 218.
a lord's land 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), 156.
this "tepiltzin," who functioned as a toatoani, ruled Quauhtinchan when it was conquered by the Tlatelolca in 10 Rabbit, led by Quauhtlatoa; the daughter of the ruler of Quauhtinchan, Tepexochillama, was taken prisoner during this conquest and became the wife of Quauhtlatoa; their son, Quauhtomicicuil, became a tlatoani of Tlatelolco; the wife of Tecuhtlecozauhqui was Tezcatomiyauh, and she was from Quauhquechollan; he was said to have governed 224 years (Quauhtinchan, s. XVI) Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 218.