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Tolnahuacatl.

Headword: 
Tolnahuacatl.
Principal English Translation: 

"tôlnâhuacatl tequihuah," title for a brave warrior (see attestations); also, a personal name, attested in Mexico City in 1551 and Huexotzinco in 1560

Attestations from sources in English: 

titre d'un guerrier valeureux = title for a brave warrior
Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, citing Wimmer (2004), citing Sahagún, https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/tolnahuacatl/74091. Translate to English here by Stephanie Wood.

Tolnahuacatl = "title of a warrior who had taken four captives"
John Bierhorst, A Nahuatl-English Dictionary and Concordance (1985, 363.