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mojón.

(a loanword from Spanish)

Headword: 
mojón.
Principal English Translation: 

a boundary marker

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

noquaxoch nomoxon = mi cuaxhochtli, mi mojón;
quachxoctli lideros moxones = los cuaxochtli, los linderos, los mojones (siglo XVII, zona de Chalco)
Yukitaka Inoue, "Fundación del pueblo, cristianidad y territorialidad en algunos títulos primordiales del centro de México," Cuadernos Canela 18 (2006), 121, Citando a AGN Tierras 2819, esp. 9, fs. 329r. y 337r.

monjon = mojón (Guatemala, 1637, documento en pipil)
Miguel León-Portilla, "Un Texto en Nahua Pipil de Guatemala, Siglo XVII," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 13 (1978), 35–47, ver la pág. 40.