T

Letter T: Displaying 901 - 920 of 13537
teːkwitiwetsini
Orthographic Variants: 
tecuitiuetzini

something that causes constipation a blockage in the bowel (see Molina)

a hostage; or, one who pays the penalty for another (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
tecuitlauiliztica

by force and in a compulsive way (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
tecuitlauiliztli

a forcefulness that is directed at someone (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
tecuitlauitequiliztli

the act of breaking the back; or, a rupture of the muscles of the loins of horses (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
tecuitlauitiliztli

a forcefulness that is directed at someone (see Molina)

a disputed parcel of land? (see attestations)

a dung beetle (see the description and the image in the DFC)
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 98v, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/98v/images/f7339077-6... Accessed 4 November 2025.

Orthographic Variants: 
tecuitlapauia ehecatl

a hard or harsh wind (see Molina)

one who deals in gold, a gold dealer, a gold merchant

Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, 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), 61.

a goldcaster

Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, 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), 25.

tekwitɬɑtɬ

cakes of dried waterfly eggs that adhere to rocks (Primeros Memoriales); or a blue-green algae (probably spirulina) that is gathered, made into cakes, cooked over coals, and eaten as tostadas (Florentine Codex)

See: Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 203; and the Digital Florentine Codex, Códice Digital Florentino, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 69r, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/69r Accessed 28 October 2025.

Orthographic Variants: 
tecuitlahtoani

a judge of the Audiencia (see attestations)

the Audiencia (see attestations)

a scapegoat (see attestations)

a person's name

to dance the dance of the lords
Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, citando a Wimmer 2004,https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/tecuitotia/61956, translation to English here by SW.

tehkwiyɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
tehcuiya, tecuia

to wrap something, to entangle something (see Karttunen), to bundle (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
Tecuiçulli

a person's name (gender not made clear)