T

Letter T: Displaying 4501 - 4520 of 13507
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)

Orthographic Variants: 
teçoloctli

likely a term for small plovers and sandpipers, birds (see Hunn, attestations)

tesomoːni
Orthographic Variants: 
tezomōni

to snore, to growl (see Karttunen)

for the tezontlalli to be mixed or stirred with lime (see Molina)

teːsoni
Orthographic Variants: 
teçoni

a lancet (see Molina)

tesonoɑ

to make something become rough, or to shave or scrape off too much hair from the head (barber) (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
teçonpahtli

a medicinal plant used for scabies, mange, or itch

Martín de la Cruz, Libellus de medicinalibus indorum herbis; manuscrito azteca de 1552; segun traducción latina de Juan Badiano; versión española con estudios comentarios por diversos autores (Mexico: Fondo de Cultural Económica; Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, 1991), 19 [8v.].

tesontik
Orthographic Variants: 
teçontic

something rough like a rock, or the like (see Molina); something coarse (see Karttunen)

tesontɬɑːlli
Orthographic Variants: 
teçontlalli

land that is covered with volcanic rock (taken into Spanish as "tezontle") (see Sahagún); a certain type of soil that could be mixed with lime powder instead of sand (see Molina)

tesontɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
teçontli

type of porous, igneous, volcanic stone (loaned to Spanish as tezontle)
S. L. Cline, Colonial Culhuacan, 1580-1600: A Social History of an Aztec Town (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1986), 237.

tesontsɑpotɬ

mamey (a type of fruit) (see Karttunen)

tesonyohkɑːn
Orthographic Variants: 
tezonyohcān

a place covered with porous red rock (see Karttunen)