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ichpochyotl.

Headword: 
ichpochyotl.
Principal English Translation: 

maidenhood

Louise M. Burkhart, Before Guadalupe: The Virgin Mary in Early Colonial Nahuatl Literature, Institute for Mesoamerican Studies Monograph 13 (Albany: University at Albany, 2001), 58.

virginity (see attestations)

Attestations from sources in English: 

quin tehuatl yancuican oticmahuizpolo, oticxapotlac oticcuilli in iichpochyo = did you just now for the first time disgrace her, deflowering and spoiling her and taking her virginity from her?
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), 105.

ayc ytlacauh yn iychpuchyotzin = never was her maidenhood damaged (early seventeenth century, Central Mexico)
Louise M. Burkhart, Before Guadalupe: The Virgin Mary in Early Colonial Nahuatl Literature, Institute for Mesoamerican Studies Monograph 13 (Albany: University at Albany, 2001), 59.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

quin tehuatl yancuican oticmahuizpolo, oticxapotlac oticcuilli in iichpochyo = quitastele la honra tu, estrupandola
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), 104–105.