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Letter T: Displaying 1361 - 1380 of 13569

telpochconeyotl.

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telpochmiqui.

to die as a male youth; this term is seen in Chimalpahin in his discussion of sixteenth-century nobles, descendants of Tizoc, many of whom died young and unmarried (central Mexico, 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, 114–115.

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telpochneci.

teːlpoːtʃneːsi
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telpochotl.

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telpochpiltoyotl.

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telpochti.

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telpochtia.

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telpochtilia.

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telpochtlahueliloc.

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telpochtlaueliloc

a ruffian; or, a carnal youth (see Molina); or, a lewd youth (see Sahagún)

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), 32.

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telpochtlahuelilocati.

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telpochtlauelilocati

to go about as a ruffian, to live carnally (see Molina)

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telpochtlamati.

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telpochtlatoani.

"leaders of the youths"; refers to a position of leadership within the telpochalli

Susan Kellogg, Law and the Transformation of Aztec Culture, 1500-1700 (Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995), 227.

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telpochtli.

teːlpoːtʃtɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
telpochtontli, telpotzintli, telpuchtli, tēlpōchtli

son, young man, a youth, a young warrior (see Molina and attestations); also, Telpochtli, "Male Youth," who was a deity, part of the Tezcatlipoca Complex of deities that relate to power, omnipotence, often malevolence, feasting and revelry
"Table 3. Major Deities of the Late Pre-Hispanic Central Mexican Nahua-Speaking Communities." Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 6: Social Anthropology, ed Manning Nash (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1967).

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telpochtontli.

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telpotzintli.

teːlpoːtsintɬi

a young man (see Molina)

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telpozolli.

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telpoçolli

a worn-out youth (see attestations)

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telquetza.

telketsɑ

to stop (one who is walking), and be frightened, astounded, or to admire an incident or occurrence; to make one who is walking stop (see Molina)

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teltapach.

the liver (see Molina); might this also have been written teltapachtli, considering that we do find eltapachtli; see also what Karttunen says about elli

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teltepitz.

cartilage under the pit of the stomach (see Molina)

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teltia.

teltiɑ

to trip without falling (see Molina)

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