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teicniuh.

Headword: 
teicniuh.
Principal English Translation: 

a friend of everyone (see Molina); also a person's name (e.g. Miguel Teycniuh, a regidor of Mexico City, 1564, who was jailed over resistance to public tribute-labor) in the Anales de Juan Bautista (ca. 1582, Mexico City)
Luis Reyes García, ¿Como te confundes? ¿Acaso no somos conquistados? Anales de Juan Bautista (Mexico: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, Biblioteca Lorenzo Boturini Insigne y Nacional Basílica de Guadalupe, 2001), 209.

Alonso de Molina: 

teicniuh. amigo de todos.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 94r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

themes: 
Friendship, Affection
War, Conflict