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Letter T: Displaying 1541 - 1560 of 13569

he came to mistreat or to kill someone (see Molina); this is a full sentence in the third person singular

teːmiktiːlistɬi

the act of killing or mistreating someone (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
temictiquiuh

he will come to mistreat or kill someone (see Molina); this is a full sentence in the third person singular

he went to kill or mistreat someone (see Molina); this is a full sentence in the third person singular

Orthographic Variants: 
temictlampa eualti

something that makes an escape from hell (see Molina)

teːmiktɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
tēmictli

1) a dream (see Molina and Karttunen); 2) a cocoon or a caterpillar that, much like a silkworm, encloses itself in a mortuary shroud before becoming a butterfly; 3) Temictzin, a nephew of Moctezuma I

a dream.
teːmiliɑː
Orthographic Variants: 
tēmiliā

to throw something onto something, to fill in on top of something (See Karttunen)

to add s.t. to s.t. else.
# Persona hecha una cosa pequeña en algo. “Ofelia cuando poso frijoles a guisar se le olvido echarle sal.”

seemingly, a rocky planted field (see attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
Temillo, Temilo, temilotli, temillotli, Temiloctli

a column, a pillar; a warrior's hairstyle
Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, citing A. Wimmer (2004), citing Molina and Sahagún, https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/temillotl

also a name and a title (see attestations); note the variations in spellings (ll or l) and the variations in the absolutive; presumably temillotl and temilotli are the same word (SW)

Orthographic Variants: 
Temjlo, Demillo, Temillo

a ruler of Tlatelolco (see the Florentine Codex and the Cantares Mexicanos); also, a fairly common name given to men in the sixteenth century in what is now the state of Morelos (see Cline, attestations in English translation, below) and in Huexotzinco (see many examples in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs)

the eldest brother.
Orthographic Variants: 
temimil quatzaccayotl

the pillars or columns around a cloister
Robert Haskett and Stephanie Wood's notes from Nahuatl sessions with James Lockhart and subsequent research.

See also temimilli and temimiltic.

a stone pillar (see attestations)

shaped like a pillar, like a stone column; cylindrical, round like a pillar