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teezzo.

Headword: 
teezzo.
Principal English Translation: 

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.

themes: 
Social Hierarchy, Commoners, Elites
See also: 
teezo, tetlapallo.