a turquoise color net cape with turquoise stones knotted into it (central Mexico, sixteenth century) Thelma Sullivan, "Tlatoani and tlatocayotl in the Sahagún manuscripts," Estudios de Cultura Nahuatl 14 (1980), 225–238. See esp. p. 233.
a cycle of 52 years; believed to have been the period for one man's rule for each of the last eight xiuhtlalpilli prior to the fall of Tollan See Edward John Payne, History of the New World Called America: Book II, Aboriginal America, 1892, 498.
a knotted turquoise cloth Eloise Quiñones Keber, "An Introduction to the Images, Artists, and Physical Features of the Primeros Memoriales," in Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 94.
a ritual name for a captive who would be sacrificed by fire at the time of the binding of the years ceremonies Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, citing Wimmer 2004, in turn citing Sahagún and Siméon; translated here to English by Stephanie Wood, https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/xiuhtlamin/76385
apparently the daughter of Quetzaltehueyac, a Tolteca Chichimeca; she was from Tecaman; she got married to Moquihuix
(sixteenth century, Quauhtinchan) Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 186.
comet; also, a variant of the word for year, which is also found as xihuitl; and, a boy's name, given at the time of the binding of the 52-year cycle (see attestations)