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ad hoc noun meaning doing things for people

James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 234.

Orthographic Variants: 
tetlachiuiliztica
teːtɬɑtʃiːwilistɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
tetlachiuiliztli, tetlachiviliztli

the act of practicing sorcery on someone (see Molina); the act of doing something out of illwill (Sahagún)

Orthographic Variants: 
tetlachiuique
person who stares at others.
1. a person who uses black magic against others. 2. a fox that moans, a dog that howls, or an owl or a rooster that cries and constitutes a bad omen.
Orthographic Variants: 
tetlaciauilti
Orthographic Variants: 
tetlaciauiltiani
Orthographic Variants: 
tetlaciauiltiliztica

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.

Orthographic Variants: 
tetlacocoui itlaxtlauil
Orthographic Variants: 
tetlacocoui ytetlanonochil
Orthographic Variants: 
tetlacocoui
Orthographic Variants: 
tetlacouitequiliztli
Orthographic Variants: 
tetlaquahuac

hard or strong as stone (combines tetl and tlaquahuac), an adjective

Daniel Garrison Brinton, Ancient Nahuatl Poetry: Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems (1887), 162.

Orthographic Variants: 
tetlaqualti

servant that serves at the table (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
tetlaqualtiani

servant or minister that serves the table (see Molina)