to sign a letter or a piece of writing; or, to sign one's name; or, to write down someone's name, to put someone in the census, or to record someone in the tribute record (see Molina)
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 239.