T | Nahuatl Dictionary

to abandon, leave behind (see Lockhart); or, to give a position to another person upon vacating it (see Molina); to relinquish one's place to someone (see Karttunen)

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tlalcamotli.

tɬɑːlkɑmohtɬi

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tlālcamohtli

sweet potato (see Karttunen)

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tlalcauhtli.

something forgotten (see Molina)

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tlālcēhui.

for hot ground to cool.

# se enfria la tierra cuando se ha calentado con el sol y con fuego. “cuando voy a mi casa mi mamá no le gusta que tenga prendido un buen rato el foco y me manda que le apague”.

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tlalcehuilli.

tɬɑːlseːwiːlli

Orthographic Variants:

tlālcēhuīlli

fallow land (see Karttunen)

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a type of locust that is found everywhere; also called the ixpopoyochapolin ("blind locust"), because it is "stupid;" it will bear its young on the road, not taking heed if someone might step or jump on it
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 102v, Sahagún, Bernardino de. Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain. Transcribed and translated with notes by Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble. 2nd rev. ed. Santa Fe, NM: School of American Research / University of Utah Press, 1950–82. Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/102v Accessed 7 November 2025.

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