moceloquichtli.

Headword:

moceloquichtli.

Principal English Translation:

soldier, warrior (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants:

mocēloquichtli

IPAspelling:

moseːlokitʃtɬi

Frances Karttunen:

MOCĒLOQUICH-TLI soldier, warrior / soldado (C) [(3)Cf.86r,109V,118v]. This is attested only in the vocative, and even in the plural vocative the possessive prefix remains MO-. This suggests a lexicalization of MOCĒL- as 'peerless.' See -CĒL, OQUICH-TLI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 150.

Attestations from sources in English:

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

themes:

War, Conflict

Women, Men, Gender