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Letter T: Displaying 1061 - 1080 of 13569

to put people in order, in a line, etc.
Thelma D. Sullivan, Compendio de la gramática náhuatl (2014), 352.

teːwiːtekoːni
Orthographic Variants: 
tēhuītecōni

whip, lash (See Karttunen)

to lash, beat, or strike people; or, to flagellate oneself

Orthographic Variants: 
teuitequilizmachtiliztli
teːwiːtekilistɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
teuitequiliztli
tewitskoːloːtɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
tehuitzcōlōtl

vinegaroon, whip scorpion (See Karttunen)

a person's name
(Tepetlaoztoc, mid-sixteenth century)
Barbara J. Williams and H. R. Harvey, The Códice de Santa María Asunción: Facsimile and Commentary: Households and Lands in Sixteenth-Century Tepetlaoztoc (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1997), 104–105.

Orthographic Variants: 
teuitzio

a type of noblewoman

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), 48.

tewitsnɑːnɑːwɑti
Orthographic Variants: 
teuitznanauati
tewitsnɑːnɑːwɑtɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
teuitznanauatl

large pustules (see Molina), possibly relating to venereal disease

an important name; e.g. don Antonio Cortés Tehuiço was the indigenous governor of Tlacopan (Tacuba) in 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), 226–227.

tewiːtsotɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
tehuītzotl

a type of lily (See Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
teuitztla
tewitstɬi

bill, beak, pointed stone (See Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
teuitzio

a person of noble lineage

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), 20.

Orthographic Variants: 
teyca

younger sister

one who does battle (see Molina)

behind someone, in his or her absence (see Molina)

one who gossips, murmurs (see Molina)