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teiyemaca.

Headword: 
teiyemaca.
Principal English Translation: 

to give someone a gift of tobacco
Translate Nahuatl, https://www.translatenahuatl.com/es/diccionario-n%C3%A1huatl-ingl%C3%A9s...

Attestations from sources in English: 

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

This act is illustrated and written up in the Florentine Codex, Book 4, f. 69r. The text says: in teiyemacac, who provided tobacco.
See the Digital Florentine Codex, citing Anderson & Dibble (1953–1982), https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/book/4/folio/69r.