rottenness, decay (see Karttunen); a blind person (see popoyotzin); also a personal name; attested, for example, by Popoyotzin, the name of a principal merchant during the time of the ruler Moquiuixtzin in Tlatelolco (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
See an image that represents popoyotl in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).
In Book 6 of the Florentine Codex we see Anderson and Dibble have translated popoyotl (popoiotzintli) as more than a small bit of rottenness or decay, but as an ear of "smutty maize." In this context, the reference is to a newborn child. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
cujx popoiotzintli in njcan tictomaviҫalvilia totecujo = perhaps here [with an] ear of smutty maize we bring honor to our lord (central Mexico, sixteenth century)