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tecualani.

Headword: 
tecualani.
Principal English Translation: 

someone detestable to others; or, someone who hates other people ("qui hait les gens")
Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, citing A. Wimmer, who draws the Anderson and Dibble translation from the Florentine Codex, https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/tecualani/61898.

Orthographic Variants: 
tecuallani, tequalani
Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents tecualani in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

tecuanlani = aborrecible = loathsome
Digital Florentine Codex, Book 10, Folio 4 verso, https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/book/10/folio/4v