to trade or, more literally, to act as a pochtecatl; to be a merchant Sarah Cline, "The Testaments of Culhuacan," in James Lockhart, Lisa Sousa, and Stephanie Wood, eds., Sources and Methods for the Study of Postconquest Mesoamerican Ethnohistory (Eugene, OR: Wired Humanities Project, e-book, 2007.
Alonso de Molina:
pochtecati. ni. (pret. onipochtecatic.) ser mercader o tratante. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 82v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.