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temacehual.
Headword:
temacehual.
Principal English Translation:
someone's vassal; the vassal of another person (see Molina)
Orthographic Variants:
temaceual
Attestations from sources in English:
See an image that represents temacehual in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).
...tultzalan, acatzalan unmotlalico: ipampa in ça tetlalpan, onmotlalico, ca oaacoac, ca aoccan veli, temaceoal mochiuhque, tetlaiecultique in azcaputzalco. = They went to settle among the reeds [and] rushes, because they came to settle in the land of another. Entry was impossible; there was no vacant land. They became the vassals [and] subjects of those of Azcapotzalco.