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texocotl.

Headword: 
texocotl.
Principal English Translation: 

a kind of tree or its fruit (Crataegus mexicana); sour stone, fruit stone, Mexican hawthorn fruit

Orthographic Variants: 
tejocoquauhtli
IPAspelling: 
teʃokotɬ
Alonso de Molina: 

texocotl. manzana tal. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 112v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TEXOCO-TL pl: -MEH tree of the Rosaceae family (Crataegus mexicana) and its fruit / tejocote (fruta) (T) [(1)Tp.226, (3)Xp.87]. See TE-TL, XOCO-TL. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 238.

Attestations from sources in English: 

tejocote was the Hispanized version of this tree (or fruit) Caterina Pizzigoni, ed., Testaments of Toluca (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2007), 248. Sometimes also seen as tecojocote. (See notes from sources in Spanish.)

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

oncan tlantica yn canin ycac texocotl = que llega has[ta] el techolote (Tepotzotlan, 1631) Vidas y bienes olvidados: Testamentos en náhuatl y castellano del siglo XVII, vol. 3, Teresa Rojas Rabiela, et al, eds. (México: CIESAS, 2002), 174–175. iteh tejocoquauhtli = hasta el tejocotal (Coyoacan, 1540) Vidas y bienes olvidados: Testamentos indígenas novohispanos, vol. 2, Testamentos en náhuatl y castellano del siglo XVI, eds., Teresa Rojas Rabiela, Elsa Leticia Rea López, Constantino Medina Lima (Mexico: Consejo Nacional de Ciencias Tecnología, 1999), 70–71. mi tierra junto a un tecojocote = notlaltzin Deoxocotitla (Santa Ana Acolco, ca.1600) Vidas y bienes olvidados: Testamentos indígenas novohispanos, vol. 1, Testamentos en castellano del siglo XVI y en náhuatl y castellano de Ocotelulco de los siglos XVI y XVII, eds. Teresa Rojas Rabiela, Elsa Leticia Rea López, y Constantino Medina Lima (Mexico: CIESAS, 1999), 190–191.

themes: 
Stones, Masonry