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a color similar to that of a lion (tawny, light yellow, light brown), or half purple (see Molina)

a traditional type of thread made from maguey fiber (see Karttunen)

a very thick stick that is placed as a bar for hanging things such as drying meat; a shaft (see Molina); might this also be the matlaccuahuitl that was used in the Valley of Toluca and perhaps other regions for measuring land parcels in groups of ten?

verbal prefix combination; an example of a subject prefix ending in "i" (in this case ni-), followed by c for the object, causing the i go to o (a standard Central Nahuatl form)

Caterina Pizzigoni, ed., Testaments of Toluca (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2007), 36.

inherited land, ancestral land, patrimonial land

a week, the week
(a loanword from Spanish)

a person's home; a chapel (the "home" of a saint's image); an enclosure for animals; a Spaniard's estate; this term rarely appears unpossessed, i.e., with the absolutive (-tli); exceptions are when this is a name, Chantli, as is found, for example, in the Matrícula de Huexotzinco (see an example on folio 833 recto

for something to break, bust open, snap, break in two, such as a rope, thread, etc.; to be broken off (see Molina, Karttunen, and Lockhart)

land belonging to the town
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), 28.

to steal; to steal something (see also our entry for ichtecqui, meaning a thief; and the difference is not always clear, given the orthographic variations)
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 219.

something sour (see Molina); might also be used for unripe, green fruit

a philosopher (see attestations)
(a loanword from Spanish)

a name ("Tlalconetl," literally, "Child of the Earth"); also seen as a slug or a lizard

a special cloak, diagonally divided, black and yellow, with a red border
Justyna Olko, Turquoise Diadems and Staffs of Office: Elite Costume and Insignia of Power in Aztec and Early Colonial Mexico (Warsaw: Polish Society for Latin American Studies and Centre for Studies on the Classical Tradition, University of Warsaw, 2005), 231; and John M. D. Pohl, Aztec Warrior, AD 1425–1521 (2001), 26.

a sailor; a bad person (see Molina and attestations)

to become established in a settlement
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 144.

to assemble; to pile on to each other
Robert Haskett and Stephanie Wood's notes from Nahuatl sessions with James Lockhart and subsequent research.

foot (a unit of measure in land documents dating from the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries)

Rebecca Horn, Postconquest Coyoacan: Nahua-Spanish Relations in Central Mexico, 1519-1650 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997), 153.

to take care of, guard, keep (see attestations); or, to be in charge (see Lockhart, attestations)

to raise, hoist something
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 239.