T | Nahuatl Dictionary

Letter T: Displaying 1921 - 1940 of 13508

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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tenitzticayotl.

the edge or the sharpness of a knife, and the like

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tenitztli.

the cutting edge of a sharp blade; but also, this is a reference to a bird with an unusual bill, perhaps the Black Tern (see Hunn, attestations)

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tenixyo.

Orthographic Variants:

tenixyoh

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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teniza.

teːnihsɑ

Orthographic Variants:

tēnihza, teniça

to eat breakfast (See Karttunen)

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tēniztaquīza.

for a handicapped person to drool.

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tēniztayoh.

a cow with salt around its mouth.

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teniztia.

tenistiɑ

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tēnmācui.

to pull out s.o.’s beard.

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tenmati.

Orthographic Variants:

temmati

to wail or complain to someone (with te-); or, with indefinite tla-, to recount one's sufferings

John Bierhorst, A Nahuatl-English Dictionary and Concordance to the Cantares Mexicanos (1985), 304, 306, 349.

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tennacatl.

teːnnɑkɑtɬ

Orthographic Variants:

tēnnacatl

the flesh of the lips (Sahagún); the gums of the mouth (Karttunen)

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tēnnāmictiā.

to join or bring two things together at their edges.

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tennamiqui.

teːnnɑːmiki

Orthographic Variants:

tenamiqui

to kiss (see Lockhart); can also involve an act required in the courts, involving kissing the cross (a religious and legal act) and crossing one's hands in front of one's lips (see attestations)

1. to put things together so that their edges touch. 2. for a person or an animal to kiss another.

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