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tecol.

Headword: 
tecol.
Principal English Translation: 

grandfather, ancestor, or great uncle (see Molina); see also our entry, colli

Orthographic Variants: 
tecul
Alonso de Molina: 

tecul. ahuelo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 93v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

tecol. tio, hermano de ahuelo o de ahuela.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 93r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

yto:ca tecol = named Tecol (attested as male) (Cuernavaca region, ca. 1540s)
The Book of Tributes: Early Sixteenth-Century Nahuatl Censuses from Morelos, ed. and transl. S. L. Cline, (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 1993), 146–147.

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