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Letter T: Displaying 21 - 40 of 13569

-temani.

an element that couples with a number prefix to describe numbers of rooms or parts of a housing complex

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-tempan.

at the edge of, or on the rim of (a common suffix on place names)
Gordon Whittaker, Deciphering Aztec Hieroglyphs, 2021, 106.

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-ten.

lip or edge

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-tenco.

-teːnko

at the edge, side, next to

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-tencopa.

-teːnkopɑ

by order of

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-tennacayo.

-teːnnɑkɑyoː

Orthographic Variants:

-tēnnacayō

gum of the mouth (See Karttunen)

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-tenpa.

Orthographic Variants:

-tepa

at the edge of something

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-tentlan.

-teːntɬɑn

Orthographic Variants:

-tēntlan

before someone's lips (compound post-position) (See Karttunen)

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-tentzacca.

-teːntsɑkkɑː

Orthographic Variants:

-tēntzaccā

cover or stopper for something (only attested in possessed form) (See Karttunen)

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-tenxipalco.

at the edge of

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-tepayo.

-tepɑhyoː

it serves someone right (see Karttunen)

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-tepec.

on the hill or mountain, this locative would be attached to a place name and tell where (see attestations)

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-tepiton.

with a noun compounded to it, a little whatever it is

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), 234.

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