a special, brown cotton thread used to knot the hair of a ritual representative of the deity Tezcalipoca (or Titlacauan, Titlacahuan) in the month of Toxcatl
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 2 -- The Ceremonies, No. 14, Part III, 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, 1951), 64.
a grandson of Tlacateotzin (ruler of Tlatelolco) and Izquixochitzin, a noblewoman from Tetzcoco (one of his many wives); Tochihuitl's father Yaocuixtzin "went to rule in Mexicatzinco"
(central Mexico, seventeenth century) Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 114–115.
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.
# una cosa hormiga muy chiquito nada mas de color negro y donde va, van por montón. “en mi casa cuando se tira algo en el suelo luego, luego se acercan las hormiguitas porque huelen lo que hay en el suelo.”