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tɑpɑtʃitʃi

green grasshopper (See Karttunen)

tɑpɑtʃkeːntiɑ

to put on clothing and load oneself up with many cloths (see Molina)

tɑpɑtʃtɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
tapachtli

a seashell, perhaps a scallop shell, or possibly coral (see Karttunen); Vogde's scallop (Florentine Codex, Book 11, f. 64v)

tɑpɑlkɑɑːwiːltiɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
tapalcaauiltia, tapalca ahuiltia, tapalca auiltia

for children to play with roof tiles or broken shells (?) (see Molina)

tɑpɑlkɑkopitʃiːwɑloːjɑːn
Orthographic Variants: 
tapalcacopichiualoyan

the place where they make roof tiles (see Molina)

tɑpɑlkɑkopitʃiːwki
tɑpɑlkɑmɑːwiːltiɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
tapalcamauiltia

to play with roof tiles or broken shells (?), speaking of children (see Molina)

tɑpɑlkɑtemɑlɑkɑtɬ

shuffleboard for playing (see Molina)

tɑpɑlkɑtɬ

a potsherd, a piece of broken tile (see Molina and Karttunen)

Barn Owl, a bird (see Hunn, attestations) (an onomatopoetic word)

tɑpɑlkɑjoɑ

for a place to be full of postsherds and broken bits (see Molina)

Daniel Garrison Brinton, Ancient Nahuatl Poetry: Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems (1887), 162.

tɑpɑliwi
Orthographic Variants: 
tapaliui

to become covered with hives (see Molina)

a type of spiny lizard, the "false chameleon"
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 97v, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/97v/images/0 Accessed 4 November 2025.

tɑpɑjɑʃin

a salamander or a chameleon

tɑpɑjoːllɑlɑsɑ

to play ball with flowers (see Molina)