nican tlacatl

Literally "here person".

nicān tlācatl (plural nicān tlācah)

1. A local person; a local.
   • c. 1550–80: Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex, book 12

     in iuh mochichioa nican tlaca: no iuh mochichioaia, tlaviztli cōmaquiaia, tilmatli pani quimolpiliaia, inic mixpoloaia
     (They got themselves up as the local people do, putting on devices, tying cloaks on to disguise themselves)

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2. An indigenous person; a native.

Usually used in the plural.

• (indigenous person) macehualli

• Campbell, R. Joe (1997) “Florentine Codex Vocabulary”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎, archived from the original on 20 February 2011
• Lockhart, James (2001) Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts, Stanford: Stanford University Press, pages 194, 227