Principal English Translation:
Barn Owl, a bird (see Hunn, attestations) (an onomatopoetic word)
Attestations from sources in English:
TAPAL-CATZOTZON-QUI, Barn Owl (Tyto alba) [FC: 47 Tapalcatzotzonquj] “It is the same as the barn owl. It is named tapalcatzotzonqui because its call is as if one struck pot sherds, or rattled them.” See CHĪCUA-TLI.
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 11 – Earthly Things, no. 14, Part XII, 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, 1963); and, with quotation selections, synthesis, and analysis here also appearing in E. S. Hunn, "The Aztec Fascination with Birds: Deciphering Sixteenth-Century Sources," unpublished manuscript, 2022, cited here with permission.