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tesɑkɑ

to transport rock (see Molina, Karttunen, and IDIEZ)

a curving lip ornament worn by warriors of Huexotzinco

Orthographic Variants: 
tezçacatl, tezçatl

a long lip plug (see Molina); a labret (a pierced lip ornament) (see attestations); perhaps this should be tenzacatl, and the "n" of tentli has inadvertently dropped away?

fat straw or reeds for use in weaving (see Molina)

tesɑːwɑtɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
tezāhuatl

a mite (see Karttunen)

one who detains another person so that he or she cannot leave; or, one who examines broken or dislocated bones (see Molina)

one who detains another person (see Molina); possibly also one who checks for broken or dislocated bones (see "tezalo" in Molina)

the detention of someone (see Molina)

one who gives advice (see Molina)

commentaries that make people laugh and help pass the time (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
tezca uauhtli, tezcahuauhtli

wild amaranth or black goosefoot plants (see Molina)

a deity; "Mirror-Snake Tortoise-Bench" -- another name for Mayahuel, the goddess of the maguey plant, the source of octli; one of several maternal fertility goddesses

Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 110.

Orthographic Variants: 
Tezcacuvacatl

a person's name (attested male); also, the name or title of a high judge (see Sahagún)

teskɑwiɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
tezcauia

to look at oneself in the mirror (see Molina)

a Tolteca Chichimeca who settled in Tula with three other Tolteca Chichimecas and four Nonoalca Chichimecas, according to the Historia Tolteca Chichimeca or Anales de Cuauhtinchan. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)

Literaturas de Anahuac y del Incario / Literatures of Anahuac and the Inca, ed. Miguel León-Portilla (Mexico City: Siglo Veintiuno Editories, 2006), 192.