T

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tɬɑːlkokoneːtɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
tlālcoconētl

type of venomous lizard (see Karttunen)

tɬɑːlkoːwɑlli
Orthographic Variants: 
tlalcoalli, tlalcoualli

purchased land; a type of land tenure
S. L. Cline, Colonial Culhuacan, 1580-1600: A Social History of an Aztec Town (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1986), 237. See also p. 15, Sarah Cline, "The Testaments of Culhuacan," in James Lockhart, Lisa Sousa, and Stephanie Wood, eds., Sources and Methods for the Study of Postconquest Mesoamerican Ethnohistory (Eugene, OR: Wired Humanities Project, e-book, 2007.

tɬɑːlkoːloːtɬ
for a part of a flat terrain to be uneven or sunken.

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

tɬɑːlkopiːnɑ

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.

hole in the ground or burrow.
tɬɑːlkojoːtɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
tlalcoyutl

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

Orthographic Variants: 
tlalqua

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

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

Orthographic Variants: 
tlalquauitl, tlalhuahuitl, tlalquahuitli, tlalquahuitl

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

tɬɑːlkwɑlkɑːn
Orthographic Variants: 
tlālcualcān

scenic spot (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlalqualiztli

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.

Orthographic Variants: 
tlalquatimani

an earth-eating gesture

tɬɑːlkweːtʃtik
Orthographic Variants: 
tlālcuēchtic

dust (see Karttunen)

tɬɑːlkwepɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
tlālcuepa

to turn to dust (see Karttunen)

tɬɑːlkwepɑlli