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to thatch a house.
tsontɬɑpoːlwiɑ
tsontɬɑːʃiliɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
tzuntlima, tzontlima, tzuntli ima

a certain type of bug, such as a spider (see Molina); a spider called the daddy longlegs (DFC); literally, "it has 400 hands/arms" (SW)
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 11: Earthly Things", fol. 99r, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/11/folio/99r/images/5edf99b6-4... Accessed 4 November 2025.

1. a bundle of grass or other shoots. 2. number root for forming multiples of 400. 3. root of TZONTECŌN, TZOMPAN and other words. “head” or “the end of an object or a process.” in older Nahuatl it meant “hair.”
tsontɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
çutli

head of hair; or, a wrapped lock of hair on the top of the head, worn by priests and warriors; headdress; crest; and, by extention, sometimes just head
Part of this is from: 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), 241.

also a number root for forming multiples of 400, also called centzontli (see examples, below);

and, one who has hair and fingernails can be a metaphor for a lord, teuctli or tecuhtli (see examples below)

tsontsɑpotɬ

a type of sapota with narcotic qualities (Lucuma salicifolia), a name also used for a member of the plum family (see Karttunen)

tsonʃiːmɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
tzonxīma

to shave (see Karttunen)

Lesser Scaup, a bird (see Hunn, attestations)

the roots of a tree or plant.

to get covered with hairs (see Molina)

tsonjoːk

the top, or at the top of something (see Molina)

tsonjoːwɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
tzonyoua

for a barber to get covered with hairs when he shaves; or, the one who has been shaved (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
should this be tzonyahualli??? (SW)
a piece of cloth rolled into a circle and placed on one’s head for holding a bucket or a load of wood in place.