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huitlatztic.

Headword: 
huitlatztic.
Principal English Translation: 

something very long (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
huytlatztic, uitlatztic, vitlatztic, huitlaztoc, huytlaztoc
IPAspelling: 
witɬɑtstik
Alonso de Molina: 

uitlatztic. cosa muy larga, o luenga.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 157v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

auh in itentzon cenca viac, cenca vitlatztic, tentzonpachtic = And his beard was very long—exceedingly long. He was heavily bearded (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 3 -- The Origin of the Gods, Part IV, 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, 1978), 13.

huytlatztoc = it stretches; or, in length (Mexico, late seventeenth-century)
Techialoyan manuscript from San Cristóbal Texcalucan and Magdalena Chichicaspa. James Lockhart points out that the -ti- ligature is missing, much as in toctoc, lies buried. Similar is huitlatztimani, which means spreads out. But both verbs with huitlatz roots could also be translated as "is." Personal communication, May 23, 2008.

huytlatztoc or huitlatztoc = stretches
Communications with James Lockhart, who points out that the -ti- ligature is missing, much as in toctoc, lies buried. Similar is huitlatztimani, which means spreads out. But both verbs with huitlatz roots could be translated as is

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

huytlatlatztoc = tendidos(?)
Xavier Noguez, Códice Techialoyan de San Pedro Tototepec (Estado de México), México, El Colegio Mexiquense A.C. y Gobierno del Estado de México, 1999), 39; also: huytlatztoc = tendido (p. 40)

altepehuaque ymaxca huytlatztoc = la propiedad de los habitantes del pueblo se extiende lejos
Anneliese Monnich, "El Altepeamatl de Ocoyacac, México," Indiana 2 (1974), 173.