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yellow flowers like floripondio but not as large, similar to what was called the "five wounds;" known in Tetzcoco

(central Mexico, 1634)
Bartolomé de Alva, A Guide to Confession Large and Small in the Mexican Language, 1634, eds. Barry D. Sell and John Frederick Schwaller, with Lu Ann Homza (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999), 13.

Orthographic Variants: 
teucuitlayacaquaztli, teocuitlayacaquaztli

a golden nose plate
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 206.

golden or silver thread (see Molina)

brocade; golden adornments on clothing (see Molina)

teoːkwitɬɑjoːtiɑ

a priest

Daniel Garrison Brinton, Ancient Nahuatl Poetry: Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems (1877), 163.

Orthographic Variants: 
Tehuacan, Teguacan

this altepetl (now called Tehuacan) is in the present state of Puebla; Gerhard (1986) finds the following political entities in this altepetl: Teohuacan, Ciapulco, Tzapotitlan, Cozcatlan, and the region called Eoxochitlan-Zoquitlan.
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 78.

Orthographic Variants: 
teouitili
teːowitiliɑːni
Orthographic Variants: 
teouitiliani
Orthographic Variants: 
teouitililiztli
teoːistɑkilitɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
teoyztaquilitl

an herb used in a remedy for relieving sore throat; also used for killing worms

Martín de la Cruz, Libellus de medicinalibus indorum herbis; manuscrito azteca de 1552; segun traducción latina de Juan Badiano; versión española con estudios comentarios por diversos autores (Mexico: Fondo de Cultural Económica; Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, 1991), 31 [19r.], 43 [30r.].

Orthographic Variants: 
theologia

theology
(a loanword from Spanish)

(early seventeenth century, central New Spain)
Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 206–207.

teːoloːloɑːni

round

(central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, 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, 1961), 109.

teoːmɑːmɑ

the god-carrier, the deity bearer; or, to carry the god/deity (see attestations)