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hicox huatzalli.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
hicox huatzalli.
Principal English Translation: 

dried figs (see Molina)
(partly a loanword from Spanish, higos, figs)

Orthographic Variants: 
hicox uatzalli, hicoxhuatzalli, hicoxuatzalli
Alonso de Molina: 

hicox uatzalli. higos passados, o secos.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 30v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Huatzal is attested as a male name. (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), 172–173.