T | Nahuatl Dictionary

Letter T: Displaying 7161 - 7180 of 13508

tlalconetl.

a name ("Tlalconetl," literally, "Child of the Earth"); also seen as a slug or a lizard

tlalcouhqui.

land purchaser

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), 236.

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tlālcoyoctli.

hole in the ground or burrow.

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tlalcoyotl.

tɬɑːlkojoːtɬ

Orthographic Variants:

tlalcoyutl

a certain animal that hides underground or in a cave, such as the mole (see Molina)

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tlalcua.

Orthographic Variants:

tlalqua

to swear or pledge by kissing the ground, or to eat dirt (see Molina)

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tlalcua.

to "eat earth," or to kiss the earth using fingers, touching the earth and then the mouth, a ritual (see attestations)

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tlalcuahuitl.

Orthographic Variants:

tlalquauitl, tlalhuahuitl, tlalquahuitli, tlalquahuitl

a measure for land, a rod ("land stick") (see attestations)

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tlalcualcan.

tɬɑːlkwɑlkɑːn

Orthographic Variants:

tlālcualcān

scenic spot (see Karttunen)

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eating earth (a ceremony); or, the act of taking an oath in a certain ceremony; kissing the earth; or putting earth in one's mouth
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 71.

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