a tax on long-distance merchants(?); Molina gives alcabala, which was a tax imposed by the Spanish
Orthographic Variants:
puchteca tequitl
Alonso de Molina:
puchteca tequitl. alcauala. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 83v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.