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heavy clay
teçoquitl = tezoquitl = "sticky, gummy" clay. Also: "Niconchiva, napilolchiva, njtzotzocolchiva, njcaxchiva, njteconchiva, napazchiva: in çaço tlein njcchiva, njçoquichiva" [Niconchihua, napilolchihua, nitzotzocolchihua, nicaxchihua, nitecochihua, napazchihua: in zazo tlein nicchihua, nizoquichihua. (modification of the orthography by SW)] = "I make ollas. I make water jars. I make large water jars. I make bowls, pots, basins. Whatsoever I make, I make of clay." (1570s, central Mexico)
“...teçoquitl, heavy clay (Sahagún, 1963, p. 252).... ” (p. 54)
“Ethnographic data suggest that heavy clay is the appropriate translation of the stone-spine glyph. Nahuatl-speaking campesinos in the area refer to the clay soils as tezoquitl. Clays and clay loams dominate the valley floor around Tepetlaoztoc today and probably did in the sixteenth century.”
In the glyphics, “the angle at which the spine pierces the stone does not alter the meaning of clay (teçoquitl), nor does the orientation of the stone.” (p. 58)