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tɬɑmɑːtsiliniːlistɬi

divine force/deity associated with pulque; also, a title held by Tezcatlipoca
Wimmer 2004, cited in the Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/tlamatzincatl/69660. Translation to English by Stephanie Wood.

Orthographic Variants: 
Tlamatzingo

one of the original twenty-five barrios of Azcapotzalco, devoted to Saint Thomas; with a sixteenth-century Dominican church still standing
https://mexicocity.cdmx.gob.mx/venues/santo-tomas-tlamatzingo/

to advise and let someone know about something that would benefit him or her, owing to the love that one feels for that person (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlamatzo(hu?)alli

folded tortillas; a metaphor for food

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), 237.

tɬɑmɑːtsowɑlli
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tlamātzohualli

folded tortilla (see Karttunen); food (see attestation) (ca. 1582, Mexico City)
Luis Reyes García, ¿Como te confundes? ¿Acaso no somos conquistados? Anales de Juan Bautista (Mexico: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, Biblioteca Lorenzo Boturini Insigne y Nacional Basílica de Guadalupe, 2001), 198–199.

bandage(s)

Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 208.

Orthographic Variants: 
tlamao

wise one, knowledgeable one (see glyphs in the Visual Lexicon); European sources will speak of sorcery and trickery; if this comes from tlahmati, referring to knowledge, it may need a glottal stop

to cause fear or reverence (see attestations)

a state of being astonished, startled, or frightened by another (see Molina)

someone who frightens people, or a scarecrow (see Molina; transl. to Engl. here by SW)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlamauh, tlamao

crazed, berserk; or, infected (possibly from tlahmati, with the glottal stop); but see also the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs for the glyphs of the name "Tlamauh" or "Tlamao," which may point to a wise one, a person who knows things (from tlamati, without the glottal stop)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlamaxaqualoliztli
Orthographic Variants: 
tlamaxaqualolli
Orthographic Variants: 
tlamaxaqualoloyan