T | Nahuatl Dictionary

Letter T: Displaying 11661 - 11680 of 13508

tletepito.

a little fire (see Molina)

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tletl.

tɬetɬ

Orthographic Variants:

tletli, tlitl

fire; fever (possibly high fever) (see Molina, Karttunen, and Lockhart)

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to lay a fire, to make a fire, to light a fire (see Molina); from the attestations we see that keeping a well swept house, a nice mat, and keeping a fire going were important elements to a proper home (SW)

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tletlaliliztli.

tɬetɬɑːlilistɬi

lighting of fires (a ceremony or ritual)

Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 126.

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tletlalilli.

tɬetɬɑːliːlli

a fire that has been laid and lit (see Molina)

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tletlectli.

tɬetɬektɬi

a bird, a kestral, a type of falcon

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Tletlepitzac.

Orthographic Variants:

Tetlepizac

Tetlepizac = a person's name, attested as male (sixteenth century, Tepetlaoztoc)
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), 117.

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tletlepitzhuatza.

Orthographic Variants:

tletlepitzuatza

to cause blisters or "signs of cardinals" when using a whip on someone or hitting that person with a stick (see Molina, who used the verb in the first person, as though he has whipped people, unless he is quoting an informant)

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