a person of noble lineage (a metaphor) (see Molina); a noble man or woman (see Sahagún) 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), 48.
"grandchild"; in Tlaxcala, however, this is a dependent in a teccalli who may have had closer connections with the nobility and lighter duties than some other dependents; still, Lockhart noticed that the teixhuihuan were sometimes treated like "the bulk of the commoners belonging to the nobles" and "they must be considered commoners in some sense, or they cabildo would not expose them to city tribute work" The Tlaxcalan Actas: A Compendium of the Records of the Cabildo of Tlaxcala (1545-1627), eds. James Lockhart, Frances Berdan, and Arthur J.O. Anderson (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1986), 110, 154.