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

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tepetoma cuahuitl.

Orthographic Variants:

tepetoma quauitl, tepetoma quahuitl.

a madrone tree (see Molina)

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tepetozcatl.

tepeːtoːskɑtɬ

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

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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.

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tepetztli.

tepetstɬi

smooth stone (see Karttunen)

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tepeuhtilalia.

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tepeuhtimani.

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tepexihuia.

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)

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tepexihuiā.

to lower s.t.

# nic. Una persona lo baja una cosa que está en la lumbre o lo que está guardado arriba. “Pablo baja la olla de barro cuando su esposa pone el niscón porque ella es pequeña y no alcanza”.

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tepexihuiliā.

to take s.t. down from a high place for s.o.

# nic. Una persona le baja una cosa a otro que está sobre su cabeza o arriba de algo. “Pedro no quiere bajarle el juguete de su hermanito y después empieza a llorar”.

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