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teicpalli.
Headword:
teicpalli.
Principal English Translation:
stone seats, stone thrones; can be a metaphor for the founding of a town (see attestations)
Attestations from sources in Spanish:
niman ya contlalia yn chicome teycpalli yuetz contema y y[tla]quotl contlallia = Luego ya pone los siete teycpalli, coloca sus espinas, pone sus varas [Y, Lockhart añade, en las notas del margen de su copia de esta publicación, "foundation of 7 towns," o sea, que la expresión habla de la fundación de siete altepetl.] (Quauhtinchan, s. XVI)