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huecatlacatl.

Headword: 
huecatlacatl.
Principal English Translation: 

a stranger or foreigner (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
uecatlacatl
Alonso de Molina: 

uecatlacatl. estrangero, o forastero.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 155r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

At least two hieroglyphs for the personal name Huecatlacatl that appear in the Matrícula de Huexotzinco (ff. 712v and 856v) suggest an association with bringing goods (probably from afar) to market.
Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood, Eugene, Oregon: Wired Humanities Projects, 2020-.