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tetzcotl.
Headword:
tetzcotl.
Principal English Translation:
a small hill, a place name with Chichimec origins and which Pomar does not explain, but which seems to have the same etymological origins as Tetzcoco (see the attestations)
Attestations from sources in English:
See an image that represents tetzcotl in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).
Attestations from sources in Spanish:
pequeño cerro; citée dans la 'relacion de texcoco', donnée comme étymologie de tetzcohco, nom chichimèque dont pomar ignore la signification