a personal name; a ruler's name in Tetzcoco in the colonial period (see the Florentine Codex)
Injc ce tezcuco tlatoanj, Qujpeoalti in tlatocaiutl in tezcuco iehoatl in tlaltecatzin çan napoalilhujtl in tlatocat atle ipan muchiuh, chichimeca tlatoque y. = The first ruler, who began the reign in Texcoco, was Tlatecatzin. He ruled only eighty days, and nothing [of note] happened in his time. This one [was one of] the Chichimeca rulers. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
andres tlaltecatl (the glyph definitely includes both a component for tlalli, land, and atl, water) (Tepetlaoztoc, sixteenth century)
TLALTECATZIN icozoyahualol itlahuitol imazayehuatilma icuauhxiuhicpal = TLALTECATZIN su escarapela amarilla, su arco, su manta de piel de venado, su asiento de ramas (centro de México, s. XVI)
Tlaltecatzin: Segundo nombre de Quinatzin, que se interpreta como el que establece tierras; en virtud de un acontecimiento histórico conocido