Headword:
Matlalaca.
Principal English Translation:
a personal name, literally "Dark Green Reed"
Orthographic Variants:
Matlalacatl
Attestations from sources in English:
This name is attested in the Matrícula de Huexotzinco (folio 486 recto). (SW)
It is attested in the Psalmodia Christiana of Sahagún (1993, p. xxii).
It can be found in Camilla Townsend's Annals of Native America (2017, p. 234).
Motolinía reported that a man named Matlalaca was said to have been a steward of Tetzcoco's Nezahualcoyotl, sending one hundred turkeys a day and large quantities of other food to the courts.
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