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town crier, one who makes public announcements (see attestations)
See an image that represents tecpoyotl in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).
njman ie ic tzatzi = thereupon the herald cried out from Tzatzitepetl (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
yc tzaziz tecpoyotl yn iuhqui ipan catqui centetl nenonotzalli = for the crier to proclaim it as is in a decree (Tlaxcala, 1547)
Navatiloz tecpoyotl tiyanquizco tzatziz = Se ordenará al pregonero que en el mercado grite (Cuauhtinchan, Puebla, s. XVI)
gobernador don Juan de Pas ypan cabalio quitlayahualoltitia yxpan tecpoyotl tzatzintia = El gobernador don Juan de Paz, montado a caballo, lo presentó en un desfile, a cuyo frente el pregonero iba gritando. (Tlaxcala, 1662–1692)
in ixquich cahuitl ynic otzatzitinenca in tecpoyotl in Diego Aztaxochitl = durante el tienpo que Diego Aztazuchitl pregonero dio pregones (Ciudad de México, 1578)