Tecocohua. | Nahuatl Dictionary

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Tecocohua.

Headword:

Tecocohua.

Principal English Translation:

seemingly, someone who is sick or in pain (tecoco), combining with the possessor syllable (hua); or, Tecocoa, someone who causes people pain; this is a name taken by tribute payers (seen as Tecocoa and Tecocohuatl or Tecocoatl); many hieroglyphs for this name include a visual for the possessor syllable "hua," which is why we are favoring spelling Tecocohua over Tecocoa here (SW)

Orthographic Variants:

Decucouha, tecocoani, Tecocoa, Tecocohuatl, Tecocoatl

Attestations from sources in English:

See an image that represents Tecocohua in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

ytoca decucouha = named Tecocoa (Cuernavaca region, ca. 1540s)
The Book of Tributes: Early Sixteenth-Century Nahuatl Censuses from Morelos, ed. and transl. S. L. Cline, (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 1993), 116–117.