something revealed or manifested; or, something found and discovered; or, a person accused of something; or, something reinvented or composed again (see Molina); an invention (see Sahagún)
light, radiance 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.
In contemporary Eastern Huastecan Nahuatl, the speech scroll is described as the tlanezcayotiltlatolli. See the use of this keyword and an especially fine example of a scroll in the Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 10: The People", fol. 45r, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/10/folio/45r/images/0 Accessed 14 September 2025.
This form in Laso de la Vego appears to be a mistake for nēzcāyōtl, sign, consisting of the preterit combining form of nēci and -yōtl; possibly the intention was itlah nēzcāyōtl.
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.