fingernail(s) or toenail(s); also a small unit of measurement of length or width (see Molina and Karttunen); possibly about a palm's width, or from the tip of the thumb to the tip of the index finger? (We also have an entry for iztitl, which is a variant spelling.) See also cemiztetl.
one of the boundaries of the Nonohualca of Tollan (Tula) Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, 4v. Taken from the image of the folio published in Dana Leibsohn, Script and Glyph: Pre-Hispanic History, Colonial Bookmaking, and the Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca (Washington D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 2009), 65. Paleography and regularization of this toponym by Stephanie Wood.
fingernail(s), toenail(s) (see Molina and Karttunen) (we also have an entry for iztetl, which is a variant spelling); this nail can also pertain to an animal, as the glyph for Iztitlan appears to have the claw of an eagle, or other animal
s.o.’s fingernail.
# no. Un poco del dedo de mi mano y el dedo mi pie en su punta está un poco duro y blanco. “Ayer se quebraron las uñas de mi mano porque lavé”.
referring to falsity, lying, etc. apparently the equivalent of iztlactli
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), 222.