toznenetl.

Headword: 
toznenetl.
Principal English Translation: 

Yellow-headed Amazon, adult (bird -- see Hunn, attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
toznene
Alonso de Molina: 

toznene. papagayo que habla mucho.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 151r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

TOZ-NENE/TOZ-NENE-TL, Yellow-headed Amazon, juvenile (Amazona oratrix) [FC: 22-23 Toznene] “It has a yellow, curved bill, like that of the white-fronted parrot; the head is crested. Its breeding place is especially [the province of] Cuextlan.” It would seem that this species was captured from the nest and raised by hand for its feathers.
Mbibl>Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 11 – Earthly Things, no. 14, Part XII, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1963); and, with quotation selections, synthesis, and analysis here also appearing in E. S. Hunn, "The Aztec Fascination with Birds: Deciphering Sixteenth-Century Sources," unpublished manuscript, 2022, cited here with permission.

toznenetl (noun) = a parrot, Psittacus signatus
Daniel Garrison Brinton, Ancient Nahuatl Poetry: Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems (1877), 167.

Said to be the best of all the parrots, with green feathers except on the head and the front of the wings, where feathers can be red and yellow.
Francesco Saverio Clavigero, The History of Mexico (London: J. Johnson, 1807), 55.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

temoque otetl tlauhquecholtin yhuan huel mieque tozneneme cochome = bajaron dos flamingos y muchos pericos y loros (Tlaxcala, 1662–1692)
Juan Buenaventura Zapata y Mendoza, Historia cronológica de la Noble Ciudad de Tlaxcala, transcripción paleográfica, traducción, presentación y notas por Luis Reyes García y Andrea Martínez Baracs (Tlaxcala and México: Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala, Secretaría de Extensión Universitaria y Difusión Cultural, y Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, 1995), 142–143.

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