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pichin.
Headword:
pichin.
Principal English Translation:
something small; perhaps an insect, like an ant?
Attestations from sources in English:
See an image that represents pichin from the simplex glyph Cuapich in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).
The Codex Mendoza includes two examples of the place name Yacapichtlan, and they both have a nose (yacatl) and an insect that looks like an ant that could be a pichin. The Matrícula de Huexotzinco (folio 615 verso) includes Cuapich as the name of a man, and the glyph looks like an ant.
Attestations from sources in Spanish:
pichintzin = un poquito