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Zacacoyotl.

Headword: 
Zacacoyotl.
Principal English Translation: 

a name, derived from zacatl, grasses, and coyotl, coyote; held, for example, by don Cristóbal Zacacoyotl, grandson of Nezahualpilli of Tetzcoco (see attestations)

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

yn itoca maria ynamic catca don xpõual çacacoyotzin tlahtohuani. neçahualpiltzintli. yxhuiuh = una tal María, quien era esposa de don Cristóbal Zacacoyotl, nieto del tlahtoani Nezahualpilli, (Tetzcoco, 1587)
Benjamin Daniel Johnson, “Transcripción de los documentos Nahuas de Tezcoco en los Papeles de la Embajada Americana resguardados en el Archivo Histórico de la Biblioteca Nacional de Antropología e Historia de México”, en Documentos nahuas de Tezcoco, Vol. 1, ed. Javier Eduardo Ramírez López (Texcoco: Diócesis de Texcoco, 2018), 102–103.

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