T

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Orthographic Variants: 
Teteu ynan, Teteo innan

the name of a deity, "Mother of the Gods" (or Gods-Their-Mother); a major aspect of the terrestrial-maternal-fertility deity complex
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 61.

She was also named Tlalli yiollo (i.e. Tlalli iyollo; "Heart of the Earth") and Toci ("Our Grandmother"). Her powers were associated with healing, and therefore she was a favorite of physicians, including eye doctors, and of midwives. There are several paragraphs in this source with more detailed information about her. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 1 -- The Gods; No. 14, Part 2, 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, 1950), 4.

she was paired with Teteointa ("Father of the Gods" or "Gods-Their-Father"); both were part of the Xiuhtecuhtli Complex of deities, associated with fire and paternalism
"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).

to worship as gods

Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), 184–185.

the religious jurisdiction of a curate or priest (e.g. parish); or, the act of administrating the sacraments (see Molina)

a neighbor whose property abutts upon that of another person (see Molina)

mountains; a reduplication as a plural (see Molina)

to throw things away, after all.
tetepeːwɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
tetepeua
for small things to spill out or fall on the ground, after all.
teːtepeːʃiwiːlistɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
tetepexiuiliztli

something very small/little (see Molina)

tetepitsɑ

to peck something (see Karttunen)

teːtepitsin
Orthographic Variants: 
tētepitzin

something very small (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tetepitztlaquactiliztli
teːtepiskɑntsin
Orthographic Variants: 
tētepizcantzin

something very small (pejorative) (see Karttunen)

tehtepolli
Orthographic Variants: 
tehtepolli

something dull, blunted, stumpy (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
Tetepo

a person's name (gender not made clear); this may mean "stump-like" (see tetepontic)

Orthographic Variants: 
tetepuntic quauitl, tetepuntic quahuitl, tetepontic quahuitl

the trunk of a cut tree; a stump (see Molina)