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Ahuelittoc.

Headword: 
Ahuelittoc.
Principal English Translation: 

a personal name meaning invisible; e.g. a ruler of Tlatelolco in the colonial period (see the Florentine Codex)

Orthographic Variants: 
Avellittoc, Auelittoc
Alonso de Molina: 

invisible = ahuelittoc
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana (1910), 222.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Don Iuan avellittoc ic ei tlatocat, in tlatilulco nauhxiujtl. = Don Juan Auelittoc [was] the third, and he ruled Tlatilulco four years.
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 8 -- Kings and Lords, no. 14, Part IX, 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, 1951), 8.

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