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tecuhtlalli.

Headword: 
tecuhtlalli.
Principal English Translation: 

a lord's land
James Lockhart, The Nahuas after the Conquest: A Social and Cultural History of the Indians of Central Mexico, Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992), 156.

Orthographic Variants: 
teuctlalli, tecutlalli
IPAspelling: 
teːuktɬɑːlli
Attestations from sources in English: 

lordly land
Sarah Cline, The Book of Tributes: The Cuernavaca-region Censuses, 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.

a lord's land
Rebecca Horn, Postconquest Coyoacan: Nahua-Spanish Relations in Central Mexico, 1519–1650 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997), 121.

"lord's land"
Susan Kellogg, Law and the Transformation of Aztec Culture, 1500-1700 (Norman and London: The University of Oklahoma Press, 1995), 226.

themes: 
Land Tenure
Politics, Power, Governance
Social Hierarchy, Commoners, Elites
Socio-Political Units, Cities, Towns, Neighborhoods