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Cecetl.

Headword: 
Cecetl.
Principal English Translation: 

a person's name (gender not made clear); a ruler of Tenochtitlan had this name (don Cristóbal de Guzmán Cecetzin)

Attestations from sources in English: 

Cecetl was a child (gender not mentioned) whose mother had died. (Cuernavaca region, ca. 1540s)
The Book of Tributes: Early Sixteenth-Century Nahuatl Censuses from Morelos, ed. and transl. S. L. Cline, (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 1993), 132–133.

ynic cenpohuallonchiquacen ytoca Don xp̃oual de guzman cecetzin = the 26th was named don Cristóbal de Guzmán Cecetzin (central Mexico, 1608–1609?)
Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 146–7.