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Techotlalatzin.

Headword: 
Techotlalatzin.
Principal English Translation: 

a personal name; the name of a ruler of Tetzcoco in the colonial period (see the Florentine Codex)

Attestations from sources in English: 

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)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 8 -- Kings and Lords, no. 14, Part IX, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1951), 9.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

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)
Víctor M. Castillo F., "Relación Tepepulca de los señores de México Tenochtitlan y de Acolhuacan," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 11 (1974), 183–225, y ver la pág. 206—207.

Techotlalatzin: Etimología no determinada que posiblemente exprese el cieno (tlálatl) que brota de la piedra (techoctía), como lo señalan las pinturas en ambos manuscritos Víctor M. Castillo F., "Relación Tepepulca de los señores de México Tenochtitlan y de Acolhuacan," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 11 (1974), 183–225, y ver la pág. 192.