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toːllɑkweʃtɬi

reedy land; or, the rotting of the reeds

[Source: Barbara J. Williams, "Pictorial Representation of Soils in the Valley of Mexico: Evidence from the Codex Vergara," Geoscience and Man 21 (1980), 51–62; see pp. 57–58. She cites Sahagún.]

toːllɑːn
Orthographic Variants: 
Tullam, Tullan, Tula

Tollan was a legendary place (e.g. referring to Aztlan or Cholula) as well as the original name for Tula, a major altepetl in what is now the state of Hidalgo, extremely important as center of a legendary culture and empire (see attestations)

toːllɑːntsinkɑtɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
tōllāntzincatl

someone from Tulancingo (see Karttunen)

toːlloh
Orthographic Variants: 
tōlloh

someone from Toluca (see Karttunen)

toːllohkɑːn
Orthographic Variants: 
Tolocan, Tolucan, Toluca

Toluca, an altepetl and a region
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), 240.

"tôlnâhuacatl tequihuah," title for a brave warrior (see attestations); also, a personal name, attested in Mexico City in 1551 and Huexotzinco in 1560

to lower or incline the head (see Molina); to swallow

to swallow s.t.
# una persona pasa hasta en medio de una comida o una medicina lo que tiene en su boca. “Dany no puede tragar medicina porque tiene muy inchado su garganta”.
Orthographic Variants: 
tolouaxihuitl

an herbal ingredient in a medicine used to fight struma or scrofula; also used for aches of the side and in foot ailments

Martín de la Cruz, Libellus de medicinalibus indorum herbis; manuscrito azteca de 1552; segun traducción latina de Juan Badiano; versión española con estudios comentarios por diversos autores (Mexico: Fondo de Cultural Económica; Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social, 1991), 39 [25r.], 43 [29v.], 53 [36v.].

bundles of unwoven green reeds [tolli, tules] made into seats [icpalli] for early rulers who wore rawhide capes, indicative of their Chichimec origins (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Thelma Sullivan, "Tlatoani and tlatocayotl in the Sahagún manuscripts," Estudios de Cultura Nahuatl 14 (1980), 225–238. See esp. p. 234.

a head-bowing

Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, 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), 106.

tololoh
Orthographic Variants: 
tololoh

owl (see Karttunen)

a Tolteca Chichimeca who settled in Tula with three other Tolteca Chichimecas and four Nonoalca Chichimecas, according to the Historia Tolteca Chichimeca or Anales de Cuauhtinchan (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.

to make a person or animal swallow s.t.
toloːltiɑː

to make someone swallow something

to make a person or animal swallow s.t.
toloːntik

something round