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tekoːni

something cuttable

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), 233.

Orthographic Variants: 
tecontapayulli

a glass container with big belly (see Molina)

tekontik

something deep (used with respect to vessels) (see Karttunen)

tekontoːntɬi

a small jug (see Molina)

a type of incense, very fine; the same as tepecopalli

(central Mexico, late sixteenth century; originally from Sahagún in 1574, a document that Chimalpahin copied)
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, 147, citing Clavijero and Santamaría

tekopiːnɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
tecopīna

to uproot something (See Karttunen)

tekopiːni
Orthographic Variants: 
tecopīni

to pry out stones, boulders (See Karttunen)

teːkotoːnɑlistɬi

a pinch (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
tecotzquani

wizard

Orthographic Variants: 
tecutzquani, tecotzquani, tecutzcuani

caster of spells
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 210.

tekoʃwiɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
tecoxuia

to glaze earthenware yellow (see Molina)

an indigenous noble who went to Chalco (from Tetzcoco?)

(central Mexico, early 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, 196–197.

tekoyɑktik

something hollow, perforated (See Karttunen)

tekoyɑːwɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
tecoyāhua

to perforate something (See Karttunen)

tekoyɑːwi
Orthographic Variants: 
tecoyāhui

to be pierced through (See Karttunen)

tekojoɑ

to howl or roar (speaking of an animal) (see Molina; transl. to Engl. here by SW)

tekosɑwiɑ
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tecozauia
Orthographic Variants: 
tecoçahuitl, tecozauhuitl

yellow ochre, a dyeing medium

Orthographic Variants: 
tecozcauan tequetzalhuan