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to ask for advice (see Molina)

an admonition

(central Mexico, late sixteenth century; originally from Sahagún in 1574, a document that Chimalpahin copied)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 150–151.

someone deserving of punishment (see Molina)

in my place; a place of residence (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
nontecaua
1. that (next to the person being spoken to); that (mental referent), there (next to the person being spoken to). 2. person or thing recalled in narration. 3. there (next to the person being spoken to).

a person's name; the name of a Tlaxichca, a person of the Tecpan or the tecpantlaca (people of the palace), who were the most important group of the Totomihuaque in the Historia Tolteca Chichimeca

(sixteenth century, Quauhtinchan)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 189 and note 3.

A small indigenous community in the vicinity of Zempoala (modern state of Mexico).

Detail from the map of Cempoala (Zempoala), Mexico, of Nov. 1, 1580; University of Texas at Austin, Relaciones Geográficas collection; http://www.lib.utexas.edu/benson/rg/rg_images3.html

nohpɑlɑkiɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
nopalaquia

to plant cactus fruits, nopal cactus plants (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
nopalveve

old nopal cactus [fruit]

Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 203.

to plants leaves or pieces of nopal cactus (see Molina)

nohpɑlli
Orthographic Variants: 
nupalli, nopali, nopanli

nopal, prickly pear cactus

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), 227.

nopɑlteːkɑ

to plants leaves or pieces of nopal cactus (see Molina)

a place name, 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.

to put mud on the head in order to cure the person of lice (see Molina)