Principal English Translation:
free
(a loanword from Spanish)
see Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 226–227.
Attestations from sources in English:
tlacpac omoteneuhque tliltique, auh ynin omoteneuhque españa huicoque oncan tetlan yhcuac huicoc yn Anton de loya tliltic çãno ymalguacil catca yn tliltique libres tn tlacallaquia = these said blacks were taken to Spain. At that time Antón de Loya, a black, was also taken with the rest; he had been the constable of the free blacks who pay tribute. (central Mexico, 1612)
Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 226–227.