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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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tecuhtlatoloyan.

Orthographic Variants: 
tecutlatoloyan

the high court, royal court, or the place where a judge adjudicates or passes sentences (see Molina)

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tecuhtlaza.

Orthographic Variants: 
tecutlaza, teuctlaza

to remove someone from high office, to deprive someone of a lordship (see Molina)

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Tecuhtlecozauhqui.

Orthographic Variants: 
Teuhctlecozauhqui, Teuctlecozauhqui

this "tepiltzin," who functioned as a toatoani, ruled Quauhtinchan when it was conquered by the Tlatelolca in 10 Rabbit, led by Quauhtlatoa; the daughter of the ruler of Quauhtinchan, Tepexochillama, was taken prisoner during this conquest and became the wife of Quauhtlatoa; their son, Quauhtomicicuil, became a tlatoani of Tlatelolco; the wife of Tecuhtlecozauhqui was Tezcatomiyauh, and she was from Quauhquechollan; he was said to have governed 224 years (Quauhtinchan, s. XVI)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 218.

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tecuhtli tlazolli ic milacatzotinemi.

Orthographic Variants: 
teuhtli tlazolli yc milacatzotinemi

one who lives badly, indulging vices (see Molina)

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tecuhtocaitl.

Orthographic Variants: 
tecutocaitl, teuctocaitl

the renown of a lineage, a distinguished lineage (see Molina)

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tecuhuia.

Orthographic Variants: 
tecuuia, tecuhhuia

to exercise one's right to a high status (see Molina)

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tecuhyotl.

Orthographic Variants: 
tecuyutl, tecuyotl

lordliness, the status or dignity of a lord (see Molina); sovereignty

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tecuica namictiani.

one who brings into tune those who are singing out of tune (see Molina)

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tecuica namictiliztli.

the tuning of those who sing out of tune (see Molina)

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tecuicamacani.

one who sets the tune, or begins a song (see Molina)

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tecuicatiliztli.

a song or some music that is given to another (see Molina)

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tecuicha.

pestle for a bowl used to grind chilli.
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Tecuicho.

Orthographic Variants: 
Tecuichon, Tecuicchon, Teuchon, Teucchon

a personal name, attested as belonging to a woman in the Mexico City area in 1563

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Tecuichpoch.

a woman's name, attested in sixteenth-century Morelos
Julia Madajczak, ‎Katarzyna Anna Granicka, and ‎Szymon Gruda, Fragments of the Sixteenth-Century Nahuatl Census from the Jagiellonian Library (2021), 209.

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