huacax.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
huacax.
Principal English Translation: 

cow(s); ox(en) (a loanword from Spanish; from vacas) 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), 217.

Orthographic Variants: 
uacas, huacas
Alonso de Molina: 

uacas chiauizotl. manteca de vacas. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 154r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Yn huacaxnacatl quiqua çan no yehuatl mocuepaz. Yn pitzonacatl quiqua çan no yehuatl mocuepaz. Yn ychcanacatl quiqua çan no yehuatl mocuepaz yhuan yn ichcaayatl
quiquemi. Yn quanaca q’[ui]qua ça[n] no yehuatl mocuepaz. (Anales de Juan Bautista [ADJB], f. 8r–8v) = those who eat the meat of cows will become cows. Those who eat the meat of pigs will become pigs. Those who eat lamb shall turn into lambs, and likewise those who wear woolen cloaks. Those who eat chicken will become that.”
Ezekiel G. Stear, Nahua Horizons: Writing, Persuasion, and Futurities in Colonial Mexico (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2025), 115–116.

In many of the documents in the corpus, a cow is called a vaca (or baca, or vaquilla, etc.), whereas huacax, originally the same word, is often an ox. Thus possibly the reference is to an ox in a testament from the Toluca region. (Santa Ana, Toluca Valley, 1737) Caterina Pizzigoni, ed., Testaments of Toluca (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2007), 119.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Yn omoquatequique yn oq'[ui]neltocaque yn d[ios] mocuepazque. Yn huacaxnacatl quiqua ça[n] no yehutl mocuepaz. Yn pitzonacatl quiqua ça[n] no yehutl mocuepaz. Yn ychcana[ca]tl quiqua ça[n] no yehutl mocuepaz yhua[n] yn ichcaayatl quiquemi, Yn quanaca q'[ui]qua ça[n] no yehuatl mocuepaz yn ixquich tlein in tlaq[ua]l y ye nica[n] nemi yn q'[ui]nqualia ca moch mocuepazque popolihuizque aocaque yezque = Los que se bautizaron y creyeron en Dios se transformarán. Los que comen carne de vaca, se convertirán en eso. Los que comen carne de puerco, se convertirán en eso. Los que comen carne de borrego se convertirán. Todo lo que es comida de los que aquí viven y la comen, todos se transformarán, serán destruidos, ya nadie existirá (ca. 1582, México) Luis Reyes García, ¿Como te confundes? ¿Acaso no somos conquistados? Anales de Juan Bautista (México: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, Biblioteca Lorenzo Boturini Insigne y Nacional Basílica de Guadalupe, 2001), 156–157.

themes: 
Agriculture, Gardens, Stockraising
Animals, Bugs, Insects, Reptiles, Fish, etc.