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pochotitlan

pochotitlan

Classical Nahuatl

Adverb

pōchōtitlan

  1. Among silk-cotton trees.
    • 17C?: Texcoca accounts of conquest episodes, f. 132
      ynic cẽtetl. huey calli. oztocalli. [...] pochotitlan. [...] ynin moch omtlamãtli yn Calli.
      (The first was the great thouse; [then] the cave house, ... the one among silk cotton trees ... These were all the kinds of houses.)

References

  • Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, Domingo Francisco de San Antón Muñón (1997) Codex Chimalpahin: Volume 2, trans. by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder, Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, pages 188–189