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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

s.t. round.
# Una cosa o una fruta que simplemente es grande y redonda. “Mary cuando muele, siempre le ayuda su hermana menor a echar tortillas, primero hace una parte de la masa forma de bola y después los aplasta con la tortillera”.

to have one's head hanging down (see Molina)

cattails

Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 2 -- The Ceremonies, No. 14, Part III, 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, 1951), 59.

Orthographic Variants: 
tolpã onoliztli

lying on rushes (a ceremony or ritual)

Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 78.

a medicinal plant, a sedge, used for curing a sore throat

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), 31 [18r.].

an ethnic group (Quauhtinchan, s. XVI)
Historia Tolteca-Chichimeca, eds. Paul Kirchhoff, Lina Odena Güemes, y Luis Reyes García (México: CISINAH, INAH-SEP, 1976), 141.

jasper (see Molina); literally, Toltec obsidian

the Toltecs, ancestors of the Mexica; famed as artists, skilled artisans, and equated with civilized people (see attestations); singular is Toltecatl

toːlteːkɑwiɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
toltecauia

for a master of the mechanical arts to make or create something (see Molina)

toːlteːkɑtɬ

originally, "inhabitant of Tula," but this came to mean skilled "craftsman, artisan," dropping the ethnic designation
James Lockhart, The Nahuas after the Conquest: A Social and Cultural History of the Indians of Central Mexico, Sixteenth through Eighteenth Centuries (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1992), 192.

also, a personal name, attested in Mexico City in 1558