Principal English Translation:
to lie buried
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 240.
Frances Karttunen:
TŌCTITOC something buried / enterrado (C) [(1)Cf.102r,(2)Zp.53,224]. In Z this has the shortened form TŌCTOC. See TŌCTI, the verb O.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 243.
Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written:
tōctli something planted or buried, -ti, auxiliary form of onoc.
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 240.
Attestations from sources in English:
"oncā micqui ce solDados onca toctoc san estevan yn soltados itoca esteuan" = "...a soldier died there [in Tlaxcala]; he lies buried at San Esteban. The soldier's name was Esteban." (mentioned for the year 1519)
Frances Krug, "The Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Region," ch. 5, p. 10, Ph.D. Dissertation draft written in the 1980s, with transcriptions and translations approved by James Lockhart. Note how the loan "soldado" is in the plural, even when the text refers to just one soldier lying buried. (SW)