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Tetzcocatl.

Headword: 
Tetzcocatl.
Principal English Translation: 

someone from Tetzcoco (spelled Texcoco today) (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tetzcohcatl, tetzcucatl, tetzcuca, tetzcocatl
IPAspelling: 
tetskohkɑtɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

TETZCOHCA-TL pl: TETZCOHCAH someone from Texcoco / natural de Tetzcoco (C) [(4)Cf.4r,56r,107r, (I)Rp.23]. See TETZCOHCO.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 237.

Attestations from sources in English: 

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

auh ynic tomaloc ōpa coyohuacā ylpiticatca Cohuanacotzin amo yteo[cuitl] amo no yn tetzcuca. Xaquitzin cohuatl ichā tlatoani yteocuitl. = And for this reason was Coanacochtzin, who had been confined in Coyoacan, released: it was not his gold, nor the Texcoca's; it was Xaquitzin's gold--he was ruler of Coatl Ichan. (central Mexico, early seventeenth century)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 190–191.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

tetzcucatl = tetzcucano, habitante de Tetzcuco
Rémi Siméon, Diccionario de la lengua náhuatl o mexicana (Mexico: Siglo XXI, 1996), xxvii.

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