a name; for example, Tlazaloc Mixcoac was killed by Acxotecatl Xochimemetzin (see our entry for Acxotecatl); and a Tlazaloc is named in sixteenth-century censuses of Tlaxcala Teresa Rojas Rabiela, Padrones de Tlaxcala del siglo XVI y Padrón de nobles de Ocotelolco (1987)
possibly a form of the verb tlaza, preterit and passive: "He Was Thrown"