T | Nahuatl Dictionary

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tocaicuiloa.

Orthographic Variants:

tocaycuiloa

to sign a letter or a piece of writing; or, to sign one's name; or, to write down someone's name, to put someone in the census, or to record someone in the tribute record (see Molina)

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tocaitia.

toːkɑːitiɑː

Orthographic Variants:

tōcāitiā

to name someone (see Karttunen)

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tocaitl.

toːkɑːitɬ

Orthographic Variants:

tocaytl

name

James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 239.

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tōcāitl.

1. s.o.’s name. 2. godmother of a girl. 3. goddaughter of a woman.

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tocaletl.

toːkɑleːtɬ

Orthographic Variants:

tōcalētl

cicada (see Karttunen)

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tocamaca.

toːkɑːmɑkɑ

to give someone a name (see Molina)

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a type of spider (Molina); or, a tarantula (Florentine Codex, which includes a painting that looks more like a spider than a tarantula)
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 93v, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/93v/images/4f39bb78-2... Accessed 3 November 2025.

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