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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.

See also: 
matlalin.
ihuitl.