⚠ Site currently under repair ⚠

Search Issues: Update 2026-08-17 - Repairs are ongoing. Thank you for your continued patience!

Some of our more complex, multi-field searches (such as the search field on our homepage and Search All Fields) are currently under repair and may not work as expected.

Thank you to all our users who emailed to alert us to the problem! We hope to have it repaired soon.

Meanwhile, elements of the Advanced Search are working and the Alphabetical Listings are working, too.

T

Letter T: Displaying 8421 - 8440 of 13569
to apply smoke to the mouth of a person who has a tooth ache.
# nic. Una persona le hecha humo a otro cuando tiene hoyos los dientes y no puede mejorarse con medicamento. “Damián le echan humo los dientes de su hijo Víctor porque todos sus dientes tienen hoyos”.

maize storage house

The Tlaxcalan Actas: A Compendium of the Records of the Cabildo of Tlaxcala (1545-1627), eds. James Lockhart, Frances Berdan, and Arthur J.O. Anderson (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1986), 62.

something pierced in two places (see Molina)

rolls of herbs used for curing sick people.

sad, piteous
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.

a personal name, attested male (e.g. Diego Tlaocol, a Mexica, arrested in Mexico City for protesting rising tributes in July 1564) (ca. 1582, México)
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), 222–223.

Orthographic Variants: 
tlaoculanj, tlaoculani

a sorrower; a person with sorrows (said of the person who delivers his or her mind and heart to the deity)

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), 44.

tɬɑoːkoltʃiːwɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
tlaocolchiua

to do or make something while being sad (see Molina)

tɬɑoːkolkwiːkɑtɬ

a sad and hurtful song (see Molina)

tɬɑoːkoleːllelɑhʃitiɑ

to become very sad and afflicted (see Molina)

tɬɑoːkoliɑː
Orthographic Variants: 
tlocolia

to favor someone, do someone a favor, to grant someone something; to ring (bells) for someone

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.

tɬɑoːkolittɑ

to feel compassion for someone (see Molina)

tɬɑoːkolli
Orthographic Variants: 
tlavcolli, tlaucolli, tlaocoli, tlayocolli, tlayocoli

sadness (see attestations)

tɬɑoːkolnɑːntɬi

a mother of sadness and affliction (see Molina)

tɬɑoːkoltiɑː

to move someone to pity (see Lockhart); or, to cause someone to show compassion for oneself (see Molina); or, to give reason to feel pity toward one (see Karttunen)

to ring bells (see attestations)

tlaocoltzatzia (verb) = to cry aloud with grief

Daniel Garrison Brinton, Ancient Nahuatl Poetry: Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems (1877), 165.

tɬɑokoːtsosɑloːlistɬi
tɬɑoːkoʃkɑː