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toːtolkwitɬɑtɬ

the waste/excrement or fertilizer from domestic fowl (probably turkeys) (see Molina)

toːtolkwitɬɑtsɑpotɬ

a domestic fruit, black inside and green on the outside (see Molina); a type of zapote fruit that looks like turkey excrement(?)

toːtoleːwɑltiɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
totoleualtia

to cause the hen to get up off the nest of eggs (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
totoluapaualoyan, totoluapahualoyan

a place for raising domestic fowl or chickens (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
totoluapauani, totoluapahuani

the person who raised hens (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
totollin, totolli, cihuatotolli

Wild Turkey (see Hunn, attestations); domestic fowl (could include turkeys, chickens, and doves) (see Karttunen) a turkey hen; a chicken, male or female
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.

See hieroglyphs of the totolin from the Codex Mendoza:
https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/content/totolin-07v
https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/content/totolin-21v

turkey.
# Un tipo de animal doméstico un poco grande que un poyo; tiene grande el ala y su cuerpo un poco largo y redondo, sus color es negro, pintos y blancos. “Mi mamá le regaló un guajolote a mi hermano para que lo cuide y lo crezca”.
tohtoliːnɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
tohtolīna

to crave many different things to eat (see Karttunen)

toːtoliskɑliɑːni

a person who raises chickens (see Molina)

toːtoliskɑltiːloːjɑːn

the place where hens are kept, a corral for hens (see Molina)

turkey stewed with maize (see Sahagún, attestations)

turkey meat
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 10: The People", fol. 58v, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/10/folio/58v/images/0 Accessed 10 September 2025.

toːtolnɑːmɑkɑk

the seller of domestic fowl (e.g. turkeys) (see Molina)

toːtolnemiːtiɑːni

one who raises domestic fowl (often, turkeys) (see Molina)

toːtolnemiːtiːloːjɑːn

a place for domestic fowl, a corral where they are kept (see Molina)

toːtolontik
Orthographic Variants: 
tōtolontic

someone fat (see Karttunen)

toːtolpiʃki

one who guards hens, perhaps turkey hens (see Molina and Sahagún, in attestations)

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Totolquetzaletzin

a son of Nezahualpilli of Tetzcoco; lost his power when Cortés arrived; sent to Coatzaqualco; said to have been killed there upon orders of Coanacochtzin and Ixtlilxochitzin

(central Mexico, early seventeenth century)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 198–199.

turkey pasties (see Sahagún, attestations); or, domestic fowl meat bundled

toːtoltekɑkɑwɑtɬ
Orthographic Variants: 
tōtoltecacahuatl

an egg shell (see Karttunen)