T | Nahuatl Dictionary

Letter T: Displaying 1921 - 1940 of 13549

tēnihyāloā.

to tie up the snout of an animal or the opening of a sack, bag or haversack with rope, string, etc.

tēnilacatzihui.

for one’s mouth to become crooked due to extreme anger or a brusk change in temperature causing a minor stroke.

A. Voca de la persona que va de lado cuando tiene aire. “ hermano de mi papá su voca va de lado porque le dio mucho aire en su cuerpo y se callò en su labio.”

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tēnilacatzoā.

to twist the top of s.t. before tying it.

# Ni. Una persona tuerce una cosa en el extremo cuando quiere amarrarlo. “Cuando Victoriano amarra el extremo de un costal primero tuerce el extremo un poquito”.

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tēnilacatztic.

1. person whose mouth is paralyzed due to a small stroke. 2. sack or bag with its opening twisted shut.

# Los labios de una persona se ha recorrido en un solo lugar. “Los labios de Octavio se juntó porque le dio aire cuando estaba caliente”.

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tēnilpi.

sack or bag whose mouth is tied shut.

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tēnilpiā.

to tie up the mouth of an animal or an object.

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tēnilpiliā.

to tie up the neck of s.o.’s sack or bag.

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tenitl.

tenitɬ

barbarian, person from another country, newly arrived in the land

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), 233.

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tenitzania.

teːnitsɑniɑ

to cut one's lips for bloodletting, as a self-sacrifice and offering to the deities or divinities (see Molina)

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something sharp, that has an edge
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), 110.

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bordered with eyes
See the Digital Florentine Codex, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book undefined: The Soothsayers", fol. 71v, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/4/folio/71v/images/c49d2839-75... Accessed 28 June 2025.

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