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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)