T

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Orthographic Variants: 
tornouia

a lathe for pressing something (see Molina); note that "torno" (lathe or perhaps some other type of metal tool) is a loanword from Spanish

bull
(a loanword from Spanish)

1. bull or cow. 2. bull.
meal prepared with beef.

a Spanish surname; e.g. fray Juan de Torquemada was the Franciscan friar who wrote the Monarquia indiana, which was published in Seville in 1615; he apparently drew from codices for this monumental work about the indigenous peoples of (primarily) central Mexico

See Sell's comments in Bartolomé de Alva, A Guide to Confession Large and Small in the Mexican Language, 1634, eds. Barry D. Sell and John Frederick Schwaller, with Lu Ann Homza (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999), 20.

tower
(a loanword from Spanish)

tortilla (a loanword from Spanish)

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.

Orthographic Variants: 
doston

half a peso, a coin
(a loanword from Spanish)

priest (literally, our father, in the reverential)
Orthographic Variants: 
totauan

our parents (see Molina and attestations); often equated with mother/father, regularly paired and almost as one being

1. appellative for an elderly man. 2. s.o.’s grandfather.

a personal name, a follower or devotee of the divine force, [Xipe] Totec
J. Richard Andrews, Introduction to Classical Náhuatl (1975), 607.

possibly also the divine force himself (as shown in an image in the Florentine Codex)
Available at Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 9: The Merchants", fol. 49v, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/9/folio/49v/images/0 Accessed 1 September 2025.

the temple devoted to Xipe Totec

(central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 1 -- The Gods; No. 14, Part 2, 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, 1950), 17.

Orthographic Variants: 
totechiuhcauan

those who govern the republic or indigenous community (see Molina)

toteːkwɑːkɑːn

a metropolitan or matrix city (see Molina)

toteːkwiyoː
Orthographic Variants: 
totēcuiyō

Our Lord God (see Karttunen)