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Coatecatl.

Headword: 
Coatecatl.
Principal English Translation: 

resident of Coatlan (see Karttunen); plural: Coateca

Orthographic Variants: 
cōātēcatl
IPAspelling: 
koːɑːteːkɑtɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

CŌĀTĒCA-TL resident of Coatlan / natural de Coatlán (K) [(1)Bf.11v]. See CŌĀ-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 36.

Attestations from sources in English: 

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

oc cenca iehoanti qujmauiztiliaia in coateca, in coatlan calpulli itech pouja: qujtlamanjlia yn inteouh, itoca coatl ycue, coatlan tona = Especially the Coateca, they who belonged to the district of Coatlan, esteemed [these tamales]. They offered them to their god[dess], called Coatl icue or Coatlan tonan. (16th century, Mexico City)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 2—The Ceremonies, No. 14, Part III, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1951), 55.

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