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Huitznecahual.

Headword:

Huitznecahual.

Principal English Translation:

a person's name (attested as male)

Orthographic Variants:

Viznecaval

Attestations from sources in English:

Chimalpahin mentions a Chalcan lord named Huitznecahual, repeating an account by don Fernando de Alvarado Tezozomoc
Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder, Codex Chimalpahin 1997, 59.

ytoca viznecaval = named Huitznecahual (male; husband of Tecapan) (Cuernavaca region, ca. 1540s)
The Book of Tributes: Early Sixteenth-Century Nahuatl Censuses from Morelos, ed. and transl. S. L. Cline, (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 1993), 142–143.

Huitznecahual is also mentioned as the father of "Toteoci Teuctli," sixth tlahtoani of the Acxoteca.
Domingo Francisco de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Cuauhtlehuanitzin and ‎Víctor M. Castillo Farreras, Memorial breve acerca de la fundación de la ciudad de Culhuacan, 1991, lxvi.

The name Huitzne appears in the Matrícula de Huexotzinco. Perhaps this is a short version of Huitznecahual. See the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (2022–).