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Tochin.

Headword: 
Tochin.
Principal English Translation: 

a personal name; the name of a Chichimec ruler of Huexotla (Huejutla) (see the Florentine Codex); the name means "Rabbit"

Attestations from sources in English: 

Injc vme tlatoanj tochin tecutli in tlatocat cempoalxiujtl ipan caxtolxiujtl ioan exiujtl. = The second ruler [was] Tochin tecutli. He ruled thirty-eight years. (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), 13.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

TOCHIN TECUHTLI icozoyahualol itlahuitol imazayehuatilma izacaicpal = TOCHIN TECUHTLI, su escarapela amarilla, su arco, su manta de piel de venado, su asiento de zacate (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. 216—217.