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Tlaltecatzin.

Headword: 
Tlaltecatzin.
Principal English Translation: 

a personal name; a ruler's name in Tetzcoco in the colonial period (see the Florentine Codex)

Attestations from sources in English: 

Injc ce tezcuco tlatoanj, Qujpeoalti in tlatocaiutl in tezcuco iehoatl in tlaltecatzin çan napoalilhujtl in tlatocat atle ipan muchiuh, chichimeca tlatoque y. = The first ruler, who began the reign in Texcoco, was Tlatecatzin. He ruled only eighty days, and nothing [of note] happened in his time. This one [was one of] the Chichimeca rulers. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
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), 9.

andres tlaltecatl (the glyph definitely includes both a component for tlalli, land, and atl, water) (Tepetlaoztoc, sixteenth century)
Barbara J. Williams and H. R. Harvey, The Códice de Santa María Asunción: Facsimile and Commentary: Households and Lands in Sixteenth-Century Tepetlaoztoc (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1997), 136–137.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

TLALTECATZIN icozoyahualol itlahuitol imazayehuatilma icuauhxiuhicpal = TLALTECATZIN su escarapela amarilla, su arco, su manta de piel de venado, su asiento de ramas (centro de México, s. XVI)
Víctor M. Castillo F., "Relación Tepepulca de los señores de México Tenochtitlan y de Acolhuacan," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 11 (1974), 183–225, y ver la pág. 206—207.

Tlaltecatzin: Segundo nombre de Quinatzin, que se interpreta como el que establece tierras; en virtud de un acontecimiento histórico conocido Víctor M. Castillo F., "Relación Tepepulca de los señores de México Tenochtitlan y de Acolhuacan," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 11 (1974), 183–225, y ver la pág. 192.