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tecuecuextli.

beads or golden bells tied around the ankle for dancing

See, for example, the Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/tecuecuextli/175343

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tecuepca tlapaloliztli.

the act of returning a greeting (see Molina)

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Tecuepotzin.

tekwepohtsin
Orthographic Variants: 
tecuepohtzin

personal name Tecuepotzin (see Karttunen)

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Tecuetlaza.

Orthographic Variants: 
Tecuetlaça

a person's name (attested male)

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tecuexanco.

one who is upon one's lap; part of a metaphor referring to commoners

Thelma D. Sullivan, "Tlatoani and Tlatocayotl in the Sahagún Manuscripts," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 14 (1980), 227.

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Tecuexoch.

a personal name (attested female); she was married to Macuextzin, a Nonoalca teuctli (Cuauhtinchan, 16th c.)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 140.

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tēcuezoh.

a problem that saddens people.
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tecuhnenenqui.

Orthographic Variants: 
tecunenenqui, teucnenenqui.

a reconnoiterer, a merchant disguised as an explorer, someone who helps lay the groundwork for imperial expansion ("los mercaderes y disimulados esploradores") (Sahagún, attestations)

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tecuhpilli.

Orthographic Variants: 
tlazoteucpili, teucpilli, tlazotecuhpilli

a high lord (see attestations); combines tecuhtli (or teuctli) and pilli

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tecuhtequitl.

Orthographic Variants: 
tecutequitl, teuctequitl

the royal office of judges and legal representatives (see Molina)

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tecuhtitlantli.

Orthographic Variants: 
tecutitlantli, teuctitlantli

envoy of the ruler
Pedro Carrasco Pizana, The Tenochca Empire of Ancient Mexico: The Triple Alliance of Ancient Tenochtitlan, Tetzcoco, and tlacopan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999), 218.

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tecuhtlacocauhqui.

Yellow Lord, a leader of serpents

Aztec Stone Sculpture, New York: Center for Interamerican Relations, 1976, 29.

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tecuhtlacozauh cocone.

Orthographic Variants: 
tecutlacozauh cocone, teuctlacozauh cocone

the offspring of a viper (see Molina); children born outside of wedlock?

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tecuhtlalia.

Orthographic Variants: 
tecutlalia, teuctlalia

to seat a lord, to knight someone (see Molina)

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tecuhtlalli.

teːuktɬɑːlli
Orthographic Variants: 
teuctlalli, tecutlalli

a lord'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.

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tecuhtlatoa.

Orthographic Variants: 
tecutlatoa, teuctlatoa

to have an audience or to understand the occupation of the president, the judge, the town official, etc. (see Molina)

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tecuhtlatoca icpalli.

Orthographic Variants: 
tecutlatoca icpalli, teuctlatoca icpalli

a platform or a throne, upon which judges sat (see Molina); literally, a seat for lordly-rulers (SW)

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tecuhtlatoliztli.

Orthographic Variants: 
tecutlatoliztli

adjudication, the act of exercising the office of a judge (see Molina)

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tecuhtlatoloya.

Orthographic Variants: 
tecutlatoloia, tecutlatoloya

judging
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 243-244.

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tecuhtlatoloyan.

teuktɬɑhtoːloːjɑːn
Orthographic Variants: 
teuctlatoloyan

the court, site of justice, literally, the place of lordly speech

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