Tepeyac, which is an abbreviated version of the original Tepeyacac, refers to the hill where the Virgin of Guadalupe is believed to have appeared in 1531, now a part of Mexico City; Tepeyacac also refers to a place in the state of Puebla now called Tepeaca (see our entry for Tepeaca)
a mountain herb, also called yyauhtli (central Mexico, 1571–1615) The Mexican Treasury: The Writings of Dr. Francisco Hernández, ed. Simon Varey, transl. Rafael Chabrán, Cynthia L. Chamberlin, and Simon Varey (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000), 136.
a deity's name ("Hill-Heart"), part of the Tetzcatlipoca complex, representing omnipotence, feasting and revelry, possibly also symbolic of the Earth "Table 3. Major Deities of the Late Pre-Hispanic Central Mexican Nahua-Speaking Communities." Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 6: Social Anthropology, ed Manning Nash (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1967).
Justyna Olko, Turquoise Diadems and Staffs of Office: Elite Costume and Insignia of Power in Aztec and Early Colonial Mexico (Warsaw: Polish Society for Latin American Studies and Centre for Studies on the Classical Tradition, University of Warsaw, 2005), 137.
relating to mountains, e.g. mountain-living (sixteenth century, Quauhtinchan) Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 164.
also, a peaked cap worn by a ruler Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, 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), 19, 57.
1) a servant woman; an older sister; also, a person's name (attested as female)
2) little; apparently a shortened version of -tepiton, which can also go to -tepito, dropping the final "n," not at all unusual (see below); but perhaps -tepiton also gets reduced to -tepi. See James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written (2002, 234), where he identifies -tepi as "little." Finally, glyphs for Tlaltepi and Xoctepi appear to use -tepi to mean little. See the Matricula de Huexotzinco, folios 506r, 608r, and 622r.