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tlaxichtli.

Headword: 
tlaxichtli.
Principal English Translation: 

an arrow, bolt, or spear that may have been shot with a crossbow; hieroglyphs from the Matrícula de Huexotzinco for the personal name Tlaxich show an arrow with notable barbs, typically just on one side; tlaxichtli are also wooden pegs or stakes

Alonso de Molina: 

tlaxichtli. passador que se tira con ballesta.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 145v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents tlaxichtli in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

tlaxichtli = wooden pegs or stakes
Sahagún, Bernardino de, Antonio Valeriano, Alonso Vegerano, Martín Jacobita, Pedro de San Buenaventura, Diego de Grado, Bonifacio Maximiliano, Mateo Severino, et al. Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España (Florentine Codex), Ms. Mediceo Palatino 218–20, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Florence, MiBACT, 1577. Available at Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter, Alicia Maria Houtrouw, Kevin Terraciano, Jeanette Peterson, Diana Magaloni, and Lisa Sousa, bk. 11, fol. 120r. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/120r?spTexts=&nhTexts= . Accessed 12 November 2025.

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