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necetochhuilo.

Headword: 
necetochhuilo.
Principal English Translation: 

for people to experience things or have them happen to them 1-Rabbit style; i.e. for a famine to occur

Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 129n3.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Auh yhuan ye chiconpohualxihuitl ypan caxtolli xihuitl. yn ipan i. tochtli xihuitl 1454. años yn iquac necetochhuiloc mayanaloc. ynic nohuian ypan nueua españa. = And also, it was 155 years ago, in the year 1 Rabbit, 1454, that there was hunger and a great famine all over New Spain. (1608, Central Mexico)
Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 128–129.

themes: 
Food, Eating, Cooking