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Letter T: Displaying 441 - 460 of 13569

tecaxitl.

tekɑʃitɬ

stone trough or bowl for grinding, mortar (see Karttunen)

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tecaxitli.

a container made of stone (see Molina)

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tecayatl.

tekɑːyɑːtɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
tecāyātl

a type of flower (See Karttunen)

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Tecayehuatl.

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Tecayevatl

a person's name (attested as male); a headless or crazy madman (see attestations)

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teccalli.

teːkkɑlli
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tecali

"lordly house," a noble lineage headed by a lord (tecutli) with it own lands and its own dependent commoners; also, a shrine or a place in a church where consecrated things are deposited

The Tlaxcalan Actas: A Compendium of the Records of the Cabildo of Tlaxcala (1545-1627), eds. James Lockhart, Frances Berdan, and Arthur J.O. Anderson (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1986), 154.

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tēccizcacahuatl.

egg shell.
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teccizmama.

a shell (see Molina); a crawling snail (see attestations)

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Tecciztecatl Metztli.

one or two related deities ("Conch Shell-Lord" and "Moon"), part of the Tetzcatlipoca complex, representing omnipotence, feasting and revelry, possibly symbolic of the moon
"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).

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tēcciztemō.

1. to have a hernia. 2. for a young horse, pig or bull’s testicles to drop.
# 1. Ni. Una persona y un animal domestico se rompe sus huevos. “Fernando cuando levantó una canasta de maíz bajó sus huevos porque pesaba mucho”. 2. Un potro empieza a colgarse sus huevos. “El potro de Raúl ya bajó de sus huevos y ahora lo van a capar”.
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tecciztic.

like a seashell

(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.

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Tecciztli Itencan.

Orthographic Variants: 
Tecçiztli ytencā

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.

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tecciztli.

teːksistɬi

conch shell(s), the kind used as a trumpet (see Karttunen); a large shell (see Molina); egg(s); eggshell(s); seashell(s); can also mean testicle in contemporary Eastern Huastecan Nahuatl (see IDIEZ fields)

1. the egg of any kind of bird, chicken, turkey. 2. s.o. or s.t.ʻs testicle.
# 1. Una cosa redonda que se caí cuando pone una gallina; tiene su cáscara blanca, su clara es blanca y la yema es amarilla. “Mi hijo lo mandé que vaya a comprar huevo cuando ya se regresaba se cayó y los quebró”. 2. no. Una parte de las pompas de una persona y un animal silvestre macho que se encuentra debajo de las piernas; están redondos como el huevo de la gallina y no están muy grandes. “Un hombre alaxtecoh se le bajó los huevos y ahora se murió”.
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teccuecuechtli.

a displeasing name given to a dignitary "who spoke in jest, who ridiculed, or who was fitful"

Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, 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), 110.

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tecealiz.

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tecealizcopa.

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tecealiztica.

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tecealti.

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tececeliztica.

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tececelmaquiliztli.

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tececeltiliztli.

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