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tzocotzin.

Headword: 
tzocotzin.
Principal English Translation: 

a small thing, a bit (the absolutive, tzocotl or tzotzocotl, is elusive when researched; and this usage does not seem to relate to zocotl, which is a tree, today called the jocote in Mexican Spanish)

Orthographic Variants: 
tzocotl, tzotzocotzin, tzocoyotl, xocoyotl
Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents tzocotzin in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

Tzocotl = attested as a man's name in the Matrícula de Huexotzinco, 1560, f. 829v. (Stephanie Wood, Editor)
https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=732&st=image&r=0.221,1...

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

auh yn nehuatl oc uel nitzotzocotzin = y yo aun era muy pequeño (Tlaxcala (1563)
Catálogo de documentos escritos en Náhuatl, siglo XVI, vol. I (México, Gobierno del Estado de Tlaxcala, 2013), 25.

yacuican hoquitzinique mocuecuepatzin tzocotzin = a las dos horas, por primera vez tocaron la esquila pequeña (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), 316–317.

xocoyotl / tzocoyotl = pequeñez
tzocoton = pequeño
Cézar Corzo Espinoza, Refundición de yerros, o Palabras de origen indígena..., 2006, 263.

See also: 
xocoyotl.