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to plant s.t. in s.o. elseʻs field.
# 1. nic. Una persona, un animal silvestre un animal domestico persigue a otro cuando va algún lugar. “Cuando Adriana lo mandan en algún lugar y no llega temprano, lo persigue su papá para saber donde está”. 2. qui/mo. Un animal silvestre o un animal domestico macho se sube encima de una hembra para que tenga un hijo. “El puerco macho de Alberto los persiguió los puercos de Leonila, y ahora todos van a tener sus hijos”.
toːkiltiɑː
Orthographic Variants: 
tōquiltiā

to sow something for someone (see Karttunen)

planting season.
planting season.

the act of planting, cultivation, agriculture (see attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
toquizua uacqui

dapple
(a loanword from Spanish)

a person who makes turned pieces of wood, such as posts for a wooden railing
(a loanword from Spanish)

a lathe; or, an iron tool for reeling or spinning silk

Leslie S. Offutt, "Levels of Acculturation in Northeastern New Spain; San Esteban Testaments of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries," Estudios de cultura náhuatl 22 (1992), 409–443, see page 428–429; and, Kevin Terraciano, Codex Sierra (2021), 152.

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)