Coyonacazco.

Headword: 
Coyonacazco.
Principal English Translation: 

a northeastern neighborhood of Tlatelolco, part of Mexico City; the site of the surrender of the Mexica in the Spanish/Tlaxcalan seizure of power (a battle that would later be reenacted)

John Bierhorst, A Nahuatl-English Dictionary and Concordance to the Cantares Mexicanos: With an Analytic Transcription and Grammatical Notes (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1985), 94.

Attestations from sources in English: 

Iquac mjtoa: in aca tenaoalaoa, tetlacaqujtia, in amo cenca qujnextia tlatolli: tel achi caqujzti: ic monanqujlia in tenaoalaoanj. Canjn mach coionacazco = It is said at this time: If one finds fault with someone, explains something to someone, if he does not make his words very clear, though he discloses a little, then the fault-finder is answered: "Where is Coyonacazco?" (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, 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), 234.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Iquac mjtoa: in aca tenaoalaoa, tetlacaqujtia, in amo cenca qujnextia tlatolli: tel achi caqujzti: ic monanqujlia in tenaoalaoanj. Canjn mach coionacazco = Este adagio se toma de vn lugar que se llama coionacazco solamente se vsa en el tlatilulco o poco mas porque en el esta este lugar que se llama coionacazco (centra de Mexico, s. XVII)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, 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), 234.

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