T | Nahuatl Dictionary

(early seventeenth century, central New Spain)
Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 204–205.

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trompa mayor.

a wind instrument
(a loanword from Spanish)

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trompeta.

Orthographic Variants:

tronpeta, tropeta

trumpet, horn (see attestations)

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Tultitlan.

Orthographic Variants:

Toltitlan

a place name, an indigenous community in the northeast corner of what is now the state of Mexico

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tumba.

tomb
(a loanword from Spanish)

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túmulo.

a tomb, tumulus, burial mound
(a loanword from Spanish)

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túnica.

tunic(s)

Here in This Year: Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley, ed. and transl. Camilla Townsend, with an essay by James Lockhart (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010), 88–95.

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Turcios.

a Spanish last name; e.g. Antonio de Turcios, was a secretary for the Audiencia and escribano mayor for the government of New Spain; he apparently worked with interpreters to prepare the Ordenanzas de Cuauhtinchan, orders in Nahuatl from Viceroy Luis de Velasco in 1559 about how things should operate in that altepetl near Puebla; earlier Turcios had worked with Viceroy Mendoza

(Cuauhtinchan, Puebla, sixteenth century)
Luis Reyes García, "Ordenanzas para el gobierno de Cuauhtinchan, año de 1559," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 10 (1972), 312–313.

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tz.

letter “tz”.

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tzacahuāztli.

comb.

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Tzacanca.

a kingdom of Tula (Tollan) that pertained to the Toltecs

(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.

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tzacāniā.

for an animal with a beak to pick at s.o., an animal or s.t.

# qui. Un animal silvestre y un animal domestico que tiene su pico lo pica a alguien cuando lo hace molestar o cuando lo come algo. “Aquel gallo nada más los pica los pollitos porque no los quiere ver cuando comen”.

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tzacāniliā.

for an animal or bird to pick at s.t. that is put close to it.

# nech. Un pollo, un guajolote y un guajolote hembra acerca su pico en la masa de alguien y lo agarra un poco para comérselo. “Aquella gallina viene mucho cuando suelo porque quiere picar mi masa”.

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tzaccayo.

Orthographic Variants:

tzacayo, tzacayotl?

something that has a cover (see Molina); also, a key

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tzactoc.

tsɑktok

something closed (see Karttunen)

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tzacua.

Orthographic Variants:

tzacua

to enclose, jail; to finish, end; block up or close up; or, to pay the penalty required by law (see Molina; see also Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written)

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