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a flame-yellow butterfly
Eduard Seler, ‎John Eric Sidney Thompson, and ‎Francis B. Richardson, Gesammelte Abhandlungen Zur Amerikanischen Sprach- und Alterthumskunde (1939), 82.

a fire-yellow butterfly, also called cuappachpapalotl (or quappachpapalotl); it glows, glistens; it is smoky and tawny
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 100v, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/100v Accessed 6 November 2025.

tɬehkoːlistɬi
tɬehkoːltiɑː
tɬekoːmitɬ

a fire pit; a hearth; or, a crucible for melting gold (see Karttunen)

tɬekopɑ

an office or a chamber where things are kept, guarded (see Molina)

an office; or, a chamber where something is stored, a storeroom or warehouse (see Molina)

storage place, office; possibly also an oratory or a bedroom (see Moina; see attestations)

tɬekotɬ

a dividing line; a line across the ball court; a ravine (see Molina and attestations)

tɬekojoːtɬ

a piece of bread, a bun, that is cooked in the embers (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlequauitl, tlequahuitl

firebrand, coals, embers, firewood (see Karttunen); the "new fire" drill (see Chimalpahin) used in the ceremony of the binding of a fifty-two-year period

Orthographic Variants: 
tlequazco

hearth (central Mexico, sixteenth century) Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 9 -- The Merchants, No. 14, Part 10, 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, 1959), 5.