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person who visits a relative on the Day of the Dead, taking them tamales, bread and softdrinks.

a certain type of bird (see Molina)

indigenous chiropractor.
teːtʃiːwɑni
Orthographic Variants: 
techiuani

progenitor; creator or maker of people

a distinctive red fringe

Víctor M. Castillo F., "Relación Tepepulca de los señores de México Tenochtitlan y de Acolhuacan," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 11 (1974), 183–225, and see pp. 220–221.

a fence or city wall (see Molina)

teːtʃipɑːwɑlistɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
techipaualiztli
teːtʃiːwki
Orthographic Variants: 
tēchīuhqui

one who governs, exercises control over people, one who creates or engenders people (See Karttunen)

youngest sibling.

something that is provoking, makes someone cry, or something worthy of crying over (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
Techolalatzin

a personal name, a ruler of Tetzcoco who was in power for seventy years, according to the Florentine Codex (Book 8, Folio 7r). In that source, his name is followed by the ethnic designation "Chichimeca."

a personal name; the name of a ruler of Tetzcoco in the colonial period (see the Florentine Codex)