a personal name; the name of a ruler of Tetzcoco in the colonial period (see the Florentine Codex)
Auh injc vme tlatoanj muchiuh, in qujoaltoqujli in tlaltecatzin iehoatl in techotlalatzin chichimecatl, auh in tlatocat iepoalxiujtl ioan matlacxiujtl ano tle ipan muchiuh. = And the second who became ruler, who followed Tlaltecatzin, was Techotlalatzin the Chchimeca. And he ruled seventy years; nor did anything [of note] occur in his time. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
TECHOTLALATZIN icozoyahualol itlahuitol imazayehuatilma icuauhxiuhicpal = TECHOTLALATZIN, su escarapela amarilla, su arco, su manta de piel de venado, su asiento de ramas (centro de México, s. XVI)
Techotlalatzin: Etimología no determinada que posiblemente exprese el cieno (tlálatl) que brota de la piedra (techoctía), como lo señalan las pinturas en ambos manuscritos