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Orthographic Variants: 
tepetlatepā nauhpā(?) tepetlatepā nappa(?)

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.

tepetɬɑtɬ

a brittle volcanic rock; taken into Spanish as "tepetate"; a type of porous rock used in construction (see Karttunen)

subterranean layer of soft, porous rock.
speckled chicken

a serious disease that could leave pock marks, such as smallpox

Orthographic Variants: 
tepetoma quauitl, tepetoma quahuitl.

a madrone tree (see Molina)

tepeːtoːskɑtɬ

mountain peak or mountain pass; or, the foothills of the mountains (see Molina)

a place in the midst of the lagoon near Mexico Tenochtitlan not to far from the site associated with the Virgin of Guadalupe (Tepeyacac), near Pantitlan, and not too far from Tlatelolco; Tepetzinco was a place much involved in prehispanic rituals

Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 2 -- The Ceremonies, No. 14, Part III, 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, 1951), 68.

tepetstɬi

smooth stone (see Karttunen)

tepehʃiwiɑː
Orthographic Variants: 
tepexiuia, tetepexiuia, tetepexihuia

to jump off a cliff (apparently a suicidal or dangerous act), or to do this to others (see attestations)