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tzaccayo.

Headword:

tzaccayo.

Principal English Translation:

something that has a cover (see Molina); also, a key

Orthographic Variants:

tzacayo, tzacayotl?

Alonso de Molina:

tzaccayo. cosa que tiene tapadero.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 151r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English:

çentetl Caxa ehuatl ypan çouhtoc tzaccayo ypatiuh x ts = a chest with a hide spread out on it, with a lock, which is worth 10 tomines (n.d., sixteenth century)
Testaments of Culhuacan (provisionally modified first edition), eds. Sarah Cline and Miguel León-Portilla, online version http://www.history.ucsb.edu/cline/testaments_of_culhuacan.pdf, 13.

Attestations from sources in Spanish:

ce caxa Michhuacayotl yancuic tzacayo yhuan ytic moyetzticate maje ome [la]mina = una caja de Mechoacan nueva con su llave, y también tres imágenes, las dos de láminas (Xochimilco, 1650)
Vidas y bienes olvidados: Testamentos en náhuatl y castellano del siglo XVII, vol. 3, Teresa Rojas Rabiela, et al, eds. (México: CIESAS, 2002), 240–241.

ome caxa Michhuacayotl pintada yhuan tzatzacayo = dos cajas de Mechoacan pintadas, con sus llaves
Vidas y bienes olvidados: Testamentos en náhuatl y castellano del siglo XVII, vol. 3, Teresa Rojas Rabiela, et al, eds. (México: CIESAS, 2002), 242–243.