See an image that represents alcaldein the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).
niGouernador, Nalcalde = I [am a] governor, I [am an] alcalde (central Mexico, 1634)
Bartolomé de Alva, A Guide to Confession Large and Small in the Mexican Language, 1634, eds. Barry D. Sell and John Frederick Schwaller, with Lu Ann Homza (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999), 23.
The orthorgraphic variant alcalte is attested in a colonial (seventeenth-century?) Guatemalan music manuscript
Fernando Horcasitas y Alfred Lemmon, "El Tratado de Santa Eulalia: un manuscrito musical náhuatl," Tlalocan 12 (1997), 84–85.
alcalde (loan from Spanish): municipal judge, also a member of the cabildo; Tlaxcala had four rather than the usual two.
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), 153.
alldes = an abbreviation for alcaldes; can refer to one or more judges or town council officers.
Alcaldes sometimes means 1st alcalde (because the s is taken to be an ordinate number by Nahuatl speakers).
In nican cabildo mocentlanlique in gouor alldes regidores yn ievatzin mgco señor diego rramirez corror por su mgt yn nican prouia tlaxcallan = there assembled here in council the governor, alcaledes and councilmen. The magnificent sir Diego Ramírez, coregidor for His Magesty here in the province of Tlaxcala (Tlaxcala, 1547)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 22, 118–119.
Tehuatin in titecuhtlatoque ioan talgaldesme in ticpia inn altepetl = We the lord rulers and alcaldes who guard the town (Coyoacan, circa 1550)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 26:6, 162–163.
juo ueytecuhctli alcalde chane tequemecan = Juan Hueytecuhtli, alcalde, citizen of Tequemecan (Coyoacan, 1554)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 9, 86–87.
Dn Juan Mendes Alde (sic) rodinario (sic) ... Dn antto Bernaber alcalde pasado (Centlalpan, Chalco, 1736)
Frances Karttunen and James Lockhart, Nahuatl in the Middle Years: Language Contact Phenomena in Texts of the Colonial Period, Linguistics 85 (Los Angeles, University of California Publications, 1976), Doc. 10, 119.
quitoa. Oniuia in Caxtillan, anozo Quauhtemallan, anozo quitoa: Nalcalde onicatca: zan ye amo nelli, zan quiztlacati: ic ommitoa. Quin in nicoyotl: ma ica niquitta = he says: "I went to Castile," or, "I went to Guatemala." Or, he says: "I was mayor." But this is not true, he is just lying. For this reason, they say: When I am a coyote, I shall see.
Thelma D. Sullivan, "Nahuatl Proverbs, Conundrums, and Metaphors, Collected by Sahagún," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 4 (1963), 120–121.
alcaldes ye anmochihua yn axcan achtopa cenca ypan xitlatoca yn doctrina xpiana = You alcaldes who are being appointed now for the first time, greatly see to the Christian doctrine (Codex Osuna, 1565)
James Lockhart, The Nahuas after the Conquest (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992), 342.
ma ica njqujtta in castillan ovia, anoço Quauhtemallan, anoco ica Alcalde ocatca. =“Do I not see at some time that he went to Castile or to Guatemala, or that at some time he was an alcalde?” (Sahagún 1950–1982, VI: 232) [annals (AJB, AHT, AP, AT, ZM), bill of sale (LSD
2), cultural encyclopedia (FC 6), legal statement (CSE, IDX, IRI, LGC, TC 7, TC 45A, TC 61, TC 83, TJ), municipal council records (TA 18, TA 84, TA 93, TA 100, TA 103, TA 129, TA 130, TA 143, TA 145, TA 152, TA 168, TA 172, TA 174, TA 176, TA 178, TA 187, TA 189, TA 192, TA 206,TA 207); petition (ANV 1, ANV 2, ANV 4, ANV 5, ANV 7, ANV 8, ANV 9, ANV 10, ANV 12, ANV 13, ANV 14, ANV 15, ANV 16, ANV 17, CH, CNH, IMA, LJJ, M 2, M 3, M 4, M 5, M 6, M 7, M 8, M 9, M 10), religious play (Mer), will (TC 10, TC 19, TC 26, TC 30, TC 41, TC 45, TC 60, TMT, TT 19, TT 25, TT 26, TT 27, TT 47, TT 48, TT 50, TT 51, TT 52,TT 53, TT 54, TT 55, TT 56, TT 66, TT 70,TT 79, TT 87, TT 94, TT 95, TT 96, WCF); time range: 1543–1822]
Loans in Colonial and Modern Nahuatl, eds. Agnieszka Brylak, Julia Madajczak, Justyna Olko, and John Sullivan, Trends in Linguistics Documentation 35 (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020), 71.