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a morsel that gets lodged in the throat (?) (see Molina)

a female maid or servant (see Molina)

tekohkoyoːtɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
tecohcoyōtl

mouse (See Karttunen)

1. boss or main supervisor of s.t. 2. owner of s.t.

one who dealt in enslaved human beings (see attestations); plural: tecohuanime

1. to use s.t. 2. for s.t. to be used. 3. to be busy.
A. 1. nic. Una persona hace un trabajo con una cosa lo que necesita. “Sabdra no utiliza su peine porque ya se le ha caido sus dientes”. “Un machete se utiliza mucho cuando alguien chapulea en su milpa”. 2. nic. Una persona no tiene tiempo. “Yo fuí a comer con el maestro porque me desocupe en ese rato”.

a rough-scaled type of lizard
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 65v, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/65v/images/0 Accessed 26 October 2025.

Orthographic Variants: 
tecul

grandfather, ancestor, or great uncle (see Molina); see also our entry, colli

Orthographic Variants: 
tecolceui
tekolsewiɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
tecolceuia
tekolli
Orthographic Variants: 
teculla

charcoal (see Molina and Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tecollo ayo

one of the boundaries of the Nonohualca of Tollan (Tula)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, 4v. Taken from the image of the folio published in Dana Leibsohn, Script and Glyph: Pre-Hispanic History, Colonial Bookmaking, and the Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca (Washington D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks, 2009), 65. Paleography and regularization of this toponym by Stephanie Wood.

tekolnɑːmɑkɑ
tekolnɑːmɑkɑk

a stone arch (see Molina), or a stone vault or bridge (see attestations); and see a Nahuatl hieroglyph in the Matrícula de Huexotzinco (1560) for the name Toltecolol, which shows a stone arch.

yellowish color (refers to yellowed clothing or animal fur).
# Un animal domesticado y un animal silvestre, una cosa o algo su color es veis. “El hijo de Alma su ropa se hizo de color veis porque no lo enjuaga con el agua del pozo cuando lo lava”.
tekoloːtɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
tecolutl, tecullotl

Great Horned Owl, a bird (see Hunn in attestations); louse (see Molina and Karttunen); a person's name (see Cline); see also: tlacatecolotl, the word for the "devil" after contact

owl.