"oncā micqui ce solDados onca toctoc san estevan yn soltados itoca esteuan" = "...a soldier died there [in Tlaxcala]; he lies buried at San Esteban. The soldier's name was Esteban." (mentioned for the year 1519)
Frances Krug, "The Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Region," ch. 5, p. 10, Ph.D. Dissertation draft written in the 1980s, with transcriptions and translations approved by James Lockhart. Note how the loan "soldado" is in the plural, even when the text refers to just one soldier. (SW)
yhuan Mexica cequintin yn timacehualtin tlapallehuique quinnapalloque in mimicque yn atle andas quipia çan petlatica ynic quinhuicaque quintocato = some of us Mexica commoners helped; they carried the dead, who had no biers; they just took them in mats to bury them. (central Mexico, 1612)
Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 224–225.
In burial records, among the most perfunctory civil records kept in Nahuatl, these were standard phrases:
"...that the individual died (omomiquili) and that a friar buried him/her (oquimotoquili), the date given apparently being that of the burial. The entry also names the deceased’s spouse (even if already also dead) and the tlaxilacalli or, instead, very interestingly, the estancia of a Spaniard where the person mainly lived, and whether or not he/she paid tribute, presumably because some of those on the estancias did not pay."
Rebecca Horn and James Lockhart, "Mundane Documents in Nahuatl," in James Lockhart, Lisa Sousa, and Stephanie Wood, eds., Sources and Methods for the Study of Postconquest Mesoamerican Ethnohistory, Preliminary Version (e-book) (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities Project, 2007, 2010), 10.
oncan yc ye mochinantia oncan quitocaque yn tlaolli y huauhtli. yn etl. yn ayotli. yn chilchotl. yn xitomatl. = There they made reed fences for themselves; there they planted corn, amaranth, beans, squash, green chilis, and tomatoes. (central Mexico, early seventeenth century)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 1, 84–85.
contocaia, contlaltocaia = they buried them, buried them in the ground (Mexico City, sixteenth century)
James Lockhart, We People Here: Nahuatl Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico, Repertorium Columbianum v. 1 (Los Angeles: UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1993), 174.
toctica = lies buried (San Pablo Tepemaxalco, Toluca Valley, 1710)
Caterina Pizzigoni, ed., Testaments of Toluca (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2007), 133.
tuca = to bury
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), 23.
See also tocaytl, tocaitl (e.g. notoca = my name is).