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Acaxoch.

Headword: 
Acaxoch.
Principal English Translation: 

a woman's name; in the Historia Tolteca Chichimeca, she is mentioned as being a wife (zohuatl), apparently of a tlahtoani
(sixteenth century, Quauhtinchan)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 152.

also, Reed-flower; in the Treatise, another way of saying deer (Atenango, between Mexico City and Acapulco, 1629)
Hernando Ruiz de Alarcón, Treatise on the Heathen Superstitions That Today Live Among the Indians Native to This New Spain, 1629, eds. and transl. J. Richard Andrews and Ross Hassig (Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1984), 220.

Orthographic Variants: 
Ācaxōch
Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

…yn tezouauan yzca yn itoca xiuhene Cozcayectli Acaxoch Acapoztec xochitli = He aquí el nombre de las mujeres: Xiuhnene, Cozcayectli, Acaxoch, Acapoztec xochitli. (Quauhtinchan, s. XVI)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 127, 152.

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