Toci

English

Alternative forms

• Toccy (obsolete)

Etymology

Borrowed from Classical Nahuatl Tocih.

Proper noun

Toci

1. An Aztec goddess.
   • 1625, Samuel Purchas, Purchas His Pilgrimes, volume 3, London: William Stansby, page 1004:

     The ſame night thee arriued, by order of the murtherer whom they worſhipped, they killed her cruelly; and hauing flayed her artificially asa they could doe, they did clothe a young man with her skin, and thereupon her apparell, placing him neere their Idoll, dedicating him for a Goddeſſe and the mother of their god, and euer after did worſhip it, making an Idoll which they called Toccy, which is to ſay, our grand mother.

Anagrams

• -otic, Coit, Tico, coit, otic