son of Acoltzin (ruler of Culhuacan) and Tlacochcuetzin (daughter of Huehue Tezozomoc and Tzihuacxochitzin, a noblewoman of Malinalco); Chimalpahin says of this ruler, "with him the lineage in Culhuacan was cut off"; he was the ninth ruler of Culhuacan; he declared war against Axayacatzin, ruler of Mexico, and was killed; another who joined in the war against Axayacatzin, and also died, was Moquihuixtli
(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, 80–81, 106–107.
to shave or cut wood, stone, hair (the combining form is xin-) 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), 241.
also, to cut hair (and haircutting styles were linked to certain ethnicities)
1. to peel fruit with a knife. 2. to plane a plank. 3. to cut s.o.’s hair.
# 1. nic. Una persona pela una verdura con una navaja. “Delfina siempre pela una naranja para su hija porque es muy chiquita y todavía no puede usar la navaja”.