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teːkpillɑhtoɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
tecpillatoa

to speak politely and curiously (see Molina); formal conversation (see Sahagún)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 1.

teːkpillɑːwɑːnɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
tecpillauana

to drink with moderation (see Molina)

teːkpillɑːwɑːnɑlistikɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
tecpillauanaliztica

with moderation, or to drink with moderation

teːkpillɑːwɑːnɑlistɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
tecpillauanaliztli

the act of drinking with moderation

teːkpillɑːwɑːnki
Orthographic Variants: 
tecpillauanqui

one who drinks with moderation (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
tecpilalli

lordly noble's land
James Lockhart, The Nahuas after the Conquest: A Social and Cultural History of the Indians of Central Mexico, Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992), 156.

teːkpillɑhtoːlistikɑ

with courtesy or polite speech, elegantly

teːkpillɑhtoːlistɬi

the act of speaking elegantly and politely

teːkpillɑhtoːlli

elegant and polite speech or thinking (see Molina)

teːkpilli

a person of the nobility, a lord (see Molina and Karttunen)

of nobility

Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 49.

with courtesy, showing good breeding (see Molina)

teːkpilloːtɬ

nobility; or having been well bred, courteous (see Molina and Karttunen)

teːkpilnɑːnɑːwɑti
Orthographic Variants: 
tecpilnanauati

to have small pustules

teːkpilnɑːnɑːwɑtɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
tecpilnanauatl

small pustules

teːkpiloːtɬ

the headdress of early Texcocan (or Tetzcocan) rulers
Justyna Olko, Turquoise Diadems and Staffs of Office: Elite Costume and Insignia of Power in Aztec and Early Colonial Mexico (Warsaw: Polish Society for Latin American Studies and Centre for Studies on the Classical Tradition, University of Warsaw, 2005), 146.

teːkpilpɑn

among the nobility

a (male or female) child of nobles

Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 48.

teːkpiltik

courteous and well brought-up (see Molina); someone noble, well bred (see Karttunen)

teːkpiltikɑːjoːtikɑ

with courtesy