(central Mexico, sixteenth century) Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, 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, 1961), 109.
a trimming from the edge of a garment or from maize, wheat, or beans; might this term also have served as "boundary" or edge of a piece of property or a territory? (see the attestation from Dehouve, below)