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teʃilistɬi

grinding (often maize)

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), 235.

teːʃiːmɑlistɬi

one who cuts hair, shears a sheep (see Molina); a sculptor (see attestations); perhaps also someone who chops wood and cuts stone

scummy

(central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, 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), 109.

the lip(s) (see Sahagún); one wonders whether the te- should be ten-, given that tentli refers to lips

Orthographic Variants: 
texipin euayotequiliztli

the circumcision of the foreskin (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
texipinquaeuayotequiliztli, texipinquaehuayotequiliztli

the circumcision of the foreskin (see Molina)

teːʃipintekilistɬi

the circumcision of the foreskin (see Molina)

a defamer, one who defames others (see Molina)

to cheat people
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 200.

teːʃiʃikoɑːni

one who deceives and mocks others (see Molina), or, a magician

deceptively or disgracefully (see Molina)