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xochtic.

Headword: 
xochtic.
Principal English Translation: 

a child that still does not speak, or something short and small (see Molina)

Alonso de Molina: 

xochtic. niño, o niña que avn no habla, o cosa chica y pequeña.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 160r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

themes: 
Children, Childhood, Adolescence