someone well-born (see Karttunen); the son or daughter of nobles (see Molina)
IPAspelling:
teːessoː
Alonso de Molina:
teezzo. lo mesmo es que teezo. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 94r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.
Frances Karttunen:
TĒEZZŌ someone well born / hijo o hija de nobles caballeros (M), bien nacido (C) [(1)Cf.99r]. This is conventionally paired with TĒTLAPALLŌ, the whole phrase referring to good breeding. See EZ-TLI. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 218.