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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.

teːskɑpɑhtɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
tēzcapahtli

a shrub or small tree with clusters of yellow flowers (Senecio praecox), used in treating wounds and rheumatism (see Karttunen)

a personal name; attested male

(Tepetlaoztoc, mid-sixteenth century)
Barbara J. Williams and H. R. Harvey, The Códice de Santa María Asunción: Facsimile and Commentary: Households and Lands in Sixteenth-Century Tepetlaoztoc (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1997), 72.

Orthographic Variants: 
Texcatepec

a placename for an indigenous community in what is now the state of Hidalgo

a small mirror (see Molina)

to set a good example for others (see Molina); contains the word for mirror (a metaphor)

a son of Tizocicatzin (ruler of Tenochtitlan); father of don Diego de San Francisco Tehuetzquititzin; there was another man with this name born to don Diego, taking his grandfather's name (all according to Chimalpahin); such a genealogy links pre-contact with Spanish colonial times (central Mexico, seventeenth century)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 96–97, 98–99.

teːskɑtɬ

a mirror 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.

also seen to serve as a mirror image (see attestations in Spanish)

mirror or glass.

a type of ball game involving a mirror and the sacrifice of captives relating to the sign "omacatl" (Two Reed) (sixteenth century, Quauhtinchan)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 172, note 3.

teskɑtɬɑːwitɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
tezcatlauitl

fine red ochre (see Molina)

teːskɑtɬepoːkɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
tēzcatlepōca, Tezcatlipoca

personal name, taken from Tezcatlipoca (a major deity) (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
Tezcatlipuca, Tezcatlepoca

"Mirror's Smoke," a deity with an omnipotence, often malevolent, associated with feasting and revelry; also, a person's name (attested male)
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 95; see also: "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).

a small mirror (see Molina)

a deity of pulque (a fermented beverage made from the century plant)

teskwitɬɑtik

something very white (see Molina)

a bloodletter (see Molina)

an instrument for lancing human flesh for the purpose of bloodletting (see Molina)

a bloodletter (see Molina)

teːsoːk

a bloodletter (see Molina)