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tamalchihualiztli.

tamale making

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), 232.

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tamalepahuax.

tɑmɑlepɑːwɑʃ
Orthographic Variants: 
tamalepāhuax

tamale with bean filling (See Karttunen)

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tamalhuia.

tɑmɑlwiɑ

to make tamales for others (see Molina)

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tamalli.

tɑmɑlli
Orthographic Variants: 
tlamalli, tammalli, tamali

a tamale, a type of cornmeal that is wrapped in corn husks and steamed

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tamaloa.

tɑmɑloɑː

to make tamales

Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 252.

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tamaloliztli.

tɑmɑloːlistɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
tamalōliztli

the making of tamales (See Karttunen)

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tamaltetl.

tɑmɑltetɬ

a tamale with no filling (See Karttunen)

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tamalxoctli.

tɑmɑlʃoktɬi

pot for steaming tamales (See Karttunen)

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tamati.

tɑhmɑti

to hold someone as a patron of the community or town council, as one who favors it, and to actually be that patron (see Molina)

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tamāxocotl.

plum.
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tamazolin.

tɑmɑsol
Orthographic Variants: 
tamazolli, tamazoli, tamaçoli, tamaçolli, tamazulin

toad (see Karttunen, Molina, and attestations); some attestations translate this as "frog," but there is another word for frog, calatl; the cacatl is apparently a toad; technically, all toads are frogs, but toads often have a warty appearance, shorter legs, and they are less likely to live in water (SW)

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tambor.

Orthographic Variants: 
tabul, tampul

a drum; this loanword could refer to an Indigenous drum or an imported European drum (SW)

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Tamin.

Orthographic Variants: 
tamin

an ethnic group known as skilled shooters of arrows; a semi-sedentary people related to the Teochichimeca

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), 171.

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Tamoanchan.

Orthographic Variants: 
tamoa ychan

a legendary place of origin, a paradise, for central Mexicans (see attestations)

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tampiloa.

tɑːmpiloɑː
Orthographic Variants: 
tāmpiloā

to swing, to rock; to swing or rock something (See Karttunen)

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Tamuín

an ancient capital of the Huasteca region, on the northern coast of Veracruz (eastern San Luis Potosí today)
Mexican Life: Mexico's Monthly Review, vol. 40 (1964), 16.

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tanatli.

tɑːnɑhtɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
tanahtli

a basket with a handle, woven of palm (see Karttunen and Molina)

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tanatontli.

tɑnɑhtoːntɬi
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tāncho.

disobedient person.
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tānchotic.

disobedient person.
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