T

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teoːtʃiːwɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
teochiua

to bless, to make sacred, to consecrate (as in a new religious building); to absolve; to pray (moteochihua)

something made sacred, a sacred thing; blessedness

Louise M. Burkhart, Holy Wednesday: A Nahua Drama from Early Colonial Mexico (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996), 197.

a pile of rocks; a boulder
The pile of rocks comes from the "montones" translation for teocholli from Librado Silva Galeana, "Notahtzin itlalnamiquiliztzin: Un recuerdo de mi padre," a free download from: https://nahuatl.historicas.unam.mx. The boulder translation comes from the English translation in "Ten Folktales in Nahuatl," by Franz Boas and Herman K. Haeberlin, The Journal of American Folklore, 37:145/146 ( (Jul. - Dec., 1924), 345-370. See p. 349..

teohsiwi
Orthographic Variants: 
teociui

to be hungry, to be anxious to eat (see Molina); or, to have a desire for something, perhaps corporal or spiritual (see Molina)

teosiwilistɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
teociuiliztli

hunger, the state of being hungry (see Molina)

teosiwini
Orthographic Variants: 
teociuini
Orthographic Variants: 
teocentli

an early form of the maize plant, called teocinte in Mexican Spanish

teohsioːwɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
teohciōhua

for there to be hunger, for people to be starving (See Karttunen)

teosiwki

hunger, or dead from hunger (see Molina)

teoːkokoːlistɬi

leprosy

teoːkokoʃkɑːpɑhpɑlɑːnki

a large spine (see Molina); perhaps also asacred bowl

Angel Julián García Zambrano, "Ancestral Rituals of Landscape Exploration and Appropriation among Indigenous Communities in Early Colonial Mexico," in Sacred Gardens and Landscapes: Ritual and Agency, ed. Michel Conan (Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Harvard University Press, 2007), 194.

Orthographic Variants: 
teoqua

to eat the deity, or the representation of the deity

(central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 3 -- The Origin of the Gods, Part IV, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1978), 6.