T

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to say terrible and scandalous things, or to discover a secret and have it cause a great malaise and scandal (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
tetzcaliui

to become smooth (see Sahagún)

Orthographic Variants: 
tetzcaliuhticac ohtli

a road, or ground that has been well swept and is clean (see Molina)

tetskohkɑtɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
tetzcohcatl, tetzcucatl, tetzcuca, tetzcocatl

someone from Tetzcoco (spelled Texcoco today) (see Karttunen)

tetskohko
Orthographic Variants: 
Tezcoco, Tezcuco, Tetzcuco, Texcoco, Tetzcohco, Tetzicocon, Tetzicoco

a place name; a very important altepetl, founded by the Acolhua people, located in the eastern area of the Nahua heartland

tetskonɑloɑ

to shave a lot (see Molina)

a small hill, a place name with Chichimec origins and which Pomar does not explain, but which seems to have the same etymological origins as Tetzcoco (see the attestations)

an ugly, deformed thing

Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, citing Cortés y Zedeño (1765), "diforme, cosa fea," translated to English here by Stephanie Wood, https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/tetzcuino/34133

impotent

Sarah Cline, "The Book of Tributes: The Cuernavaca-region Censuses," in James Lockhart, Lisa Sousa, and Stephanie Wood, eds., Sources and Methods for the Study of Postconquest Mesoamerican Ethnohistory (Eugene, OR: Wired Humanities Project, e-book, 2007.

tetsiːkɑtɬɑːlli
Orthographic Variants: 
tetzīcatlālli

ant hill of a particular type of ant (see Karttunen)