Principal English Translation:
a sign of something
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 227.
Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written:
abstract noun from nēci; in the absolutive it would be nēzcāyōtl, with pret. agentive combining form plus -yōtl. 227