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tochpochtzin.

Headword: 
tochpochtzin.
Principal English Translation: 

a maiden (literally, our maiden)

Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, 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, 1961), 46.

Orthographic Variants: 
tochpuchtzin
Attestations from sources in English: 

in tochpuchtzin, ca pilli, ca tecpilli, tecpilpan tlacatl, tecpilconetl, pillacamecaiutl itech quizqui, anoço in tlaçotli iiollo, in tlaçotlaloni, in maluiloni. = The maiden is noble, a noble among nobles, a child of nobility. [She is one] from whom noble lineage issues, or she is of noble birth, worthy of being loved, worthy of preferred treatment. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, 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, 1961), 46.

themes: 
Children, Childhood, Adolescence