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a small thing, a bit (the absolutive, tzocotl or tzotzocotl, is elusive when researched; and this usage does not seem to relate to zocotl, which is a tree, today called the jocote in Mexican Spanish)
See an image that represents tzocotzin in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).
Tzocotl = attested as a man's name in the Matrícula de Huexotzinco, 1560, f. 829v. (Stephanie Wood, Editor)
auh yn nehuatl oc uel nitzotzocotzin = y yo aun era muy pequeño (Tlaxcala (1563)
yacuican hoquitzinique mocuecuepatzin tzocotzin = a las dos horas, por primera vez tocaron la esquila pequeña (Tlaxcala, 1662–1692)
xocoyotl / tzocoyotl = pequeñez
tzocoton = pequeño