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land deserver, landholder (and, by extension, town founder and perhaps even conqueror -- under study) (see attestations)

one who plays by making mounds of earth (see Molina)

the child who plays with by making mounds of earth (see Molina)

to found a town

flattened or evened ground (see Molina)

plain, level ground (see Karttunen)

to have a small piece of land, or a piece of land which is held by a son with permission from his father, for his own use and benefit (see Molina)

a small, black, slippery creature with a shell that lives in the hot lands; it is found in the maize fields (tlalli, milli); it comes out when it rains; it has small horns, which is why the name is mazatl (deer) in part; it exudes a varnish-like liquid that can sicken and kill people who eat it; it is also called "tzompilacauaztli" (tzompilacahuaztli)

Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 83r, 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/83r Accessed 31 October 2025.

a cultivated field; a field among others (see Molina and attestations); very typically a tlalmilli was planted in maize, but not exclusively so