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Mixcoatlailotlac.

Headword: 
Mixcoatlailotlac.
Principal English Translation: 

a personal name in what is now Morelos; attested as male; appears to be a compound of a Chichimec deity (Mixcoatl) and a magistrate's title (Tlailotlac)

Orthographic Variants: 
Miscovatlayllotlac
Attestations from sources in English: 

oca tlapachova ytoca miscovatlayllotlac ao moquatequia = There one named Mixcoatlailotlac, not baptized, governs. (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), 174–175.

See also the Codex Mendoza, fol. 68 recto. (SW)