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Coazacatl.

Headword: 
Coazacatl.
Principal English Translation: 

a personal name, attested, for example, in Culhuacan and Huexotzinco

Attestations from sources in English: 

Martín Coazacatl
El Libro de Testamentos de Culhuacán: vida y muerte entre los nahua del México central, siglo xvi, eds. Miguel León-Portilla y Sarah Cline (México: Universidad Iberoamericana), 129.

Toribio Coazacatl, huehue
Matrícula de Huexotzinco, f. 897v. https://www.loc.gov/resource/gdcwdl.wdl_15282/?sp=866&r=0.031,0.86,0.677...

The name literally means Serpent-Zacate (zacatl can refer to grasses, weeds, hay, straw, etc.). (SW)