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teːtsotsomoniɑːni

something that tears clothing; or something that lacerates, mangles, or dissects (see Molina)

something uncertain that makes one vacillate (see Molina)

tetsotsonɑ

to work with stones, to sculpt stone; or, to hit someone with stones (see Molina)

tetsotsonkɑːjoːtɬ

the sculpting of stone

Thelma D. Sullivan, "Nahuatl Proverbs, Conundrums, and Metaphors, Collected by Sahagún," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 4 (1963), 98–99.

stone cutters who work stone (see Molina)

tetsotsonki

a stone worker, one who works stones (picapedrero)

one who dissects, lacerates, or mangles; or, one who distributes parcels of land; or, one who cuts large branches from trees (see Molina)

one who dissects, lacerates, or mangles; or, one who distributes parcels of land; or, one who cuts large branches from trees (see Molina)

pricks or small holes punched with an instrument (see Molina)

teːtsojoːtiːlistɬi

See also words beginning with tecu-.

teːuktɬɑmɑkɑski
Orthographic Variants: 
Tecuitlamacazqui

lordly priest (a name in Quauhchichinollan, Morelos, census, early sixteenth century)

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.

teːwktɬɑhtoɑː
Orthographic Variants: 
tēuctlahtoā

to hold court, public hearing, council (see Karttunen)

leader of a calpolli

James Lockhart, The Nahuas after the Conquest: A Social and Cultural History of the Indians of Central Mexico, Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992), 17.

teːwktɬɑhtoɑːyɑːn
Orthographic Variants: 
tēuctlahtoāyān

court of justice (see Karttunen)

teːuktoːkɑːitɬ

"lordly name", a title for a leader, or "teuctlatoani"

James Lockhart, The Nahuas after the Conquest: A Social and Cultural History of the Indians of Central Mexico, Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992), 16.