Matlalihuitl. | Nahuatl Dictionary

Matlalihuitl.

Headword:

Matlalihuitl.

Principal English Translation:

a fairly common personal name in the sixteenth century in what is now the state of Morelos (attested as male); perhaps translates as Blue-Green Feather

Orthographic Variants:

Matallivitli

Attestations from sources in English:

y nican icha ytoca matallivitli = Here is the home of one named Matlalihuitl.... Note: more than one person in these censuses has this 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), 112–113. Additional attestations are found on 120–121, 132–133, 142–143, 172–173 (more than one in the same household), and probably elsewhere in these demographic records.