something dragged along -- often in possessed form, meaning the dependency of something, especially of an indigenous municipality
See an image that represents tlahuilanalli in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).
tlahuillanalli = a dependency (of a socio-political unit)
Sn xptobal Yuilanca Siudad Sn Jose tolocā = San Cristobál, a dependency of the city of San José Toluca (San Miguel Aticpac, Toluca Valley, 1732)
yntlahuillanalpan yntech pohui yn tlahtoq˜ = which belonged to and was a dependency of the rulers (early seventeenth century, central New Spain)