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Letter T: Displaying 13061 - 13080 of 13569
Orthographic Variants: 
tzinitzcan tototl, teotzinitzcan, teutzinitzcan

Monuntain Trogon, a bird (see Hunn, attestations); also a term for the head feathers of many birds (see attestations)

for a person to insert thread into the eye of a needle.
for a person to insert thread into the eye of s.o.’s needle.
for a person or an animal to grab another’s waist from behind.
for a tree or s.t. that has not been well placed to tilt.
# palo o una cosa se mueve porque no lo han puesto bien. ˝reina la regañaron porque han inclinado el palo que le han puesto el arbol del platano.˝
to bend a protruding object down.
# persona y animal domestico mueve una cosa que esta pegado en la tierra y se queda chuecco. ˝ayer mi abuelo fue a la milpa fue a ver y vio que un toro ha inclinado el palo del arbol y se enojo.˝
s.t. tilted.
# Está torcido un poco de abajo un tipo de árbol o alguna otra cosa donde está parado. “La casa de Antoño está de lado porque solo de un lado se pesa la azotea de casa”.
s.o. or an animal’s buttocks.

a fly maggot or a blowfly
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 104v, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/104v/images/4eae1c30-... Accessed 8 November 2025.

tsiːnpeːwɑltiɑː
Orthographic Variants: 
tzīnpēhualtiā

to begin something from scratch (see Karttunen)

tsiːnpihpiːtskwɑwti
Orthographic Variants: 
tzīnpihpītzcuauhti

to get tired in one’s rump, to get tired of sitting down (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tzinpitzaoac

long and thin at the root

(central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, 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), 109.

for one’s waist to hurt.
# Persona de duele su cuerpo. “esa abuelita le empieza a doler la cintura porque se cayo en el patio.”
for s.o. to be numb in the waist.
# Persona, animal silvestre y animal domestico termina su fuerza en la cintura y ya no lo siente. “ese puerco esta muerto de la cintura porque le pegaron en casa ajena y les comió algo.”
(on) s.o.’s hips.
tsiːnketstikɑh
Orthographic Variants: 
tzīnquetzticah

to be elevated, steep (see Karttunen)

tsinkesɑ

to turn upside down; to turn something upside down (see Karttunen)

for a small child to be bent over with it’s rear-end in the air.