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Letter T: Displaying 11601 - 11620 of 13569
Orthographic Variants: 
tleican amo
tɬeiːkneːn
Orthographic Variants: 
tleīcnēn

to what end? what use? (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tleimmachipampa
tɬein
Orthographic Variants: 
tleyn, achtlein

what? (interrogative), but when preceded by in, that which (see Lockhart, Karttunen, and Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
tleinic amo
Orthographic Variants: 
tleinic
tɬeinmɑh
Orthographic Variants: 
tleinmah

what? what may it be? (see Karttunen)

tɬeinmɑtʃ
Orthographic Variants: 
tleymach

what in the world? what the devil? (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tleino
tɬeiːpɑmpɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
tleīpampa

why? (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlen machica

a personal name, "What in the World For?"
James Lockhart (The Nahuas, 1992, 121) translated this name from the c. 1580 census of Culhuacan.

Orthographic Variants: 
tlemahco

in an incense spoon
Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, citing A. Wimmer (2004), who cite the Florentine Codex, Book 8, https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/tlemaco/73592

Orthographic Variants: 
tlemaytl

a clay censer or something similar for carrying fire (see Molina), an incense ladle, a hand-held brazier

tɬemɑmɑli

to make fire with a hand drill made from a stick (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
Tlematepeua

a kingdom of Tula (Tollan) that pertained to the Toltecs (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Literaturas de Anahuac y del Incario / Literatures of Anahuac and the Inca, ed. Miguel León-Portilla (Mexico City: Siglo Veintiuno Editories, 2006), 192.

tɬemɑti

to suffer something with anguish (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlemaxupilli

an incense ladle
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 210.

Orthographic Variants: 
tlemiauatl
Orthographic Variants: 
tlemiauayotia