[Nahuat-l] Princess name

[Frances Karttunen]

There was Tecuichpochtzin, whose name pretty much means 'princess.'

TOne of the daughtesr of Moteuczoma, she was repeatedly married,  
first to three Aztec leaders, all of whom died in the Conquest.   
Then, after being in the hands of Cortés for awhile and having been  
given the baptismal name Doña Isabel and endowed with a large estate,  
she had three successive marriages to conquistadors.

It might be worthwhile to consult the essay on "Nahua Naming  
Patterns" by Rebecca Horn in Indian Women of Early Mexico, published  
by the University of Oklahoma Press in 1997. There is a section on  
"Preconquest Naming Patterns' on pp. 107-8.
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