something instructive, didactic (see Karttunen); something that provides understanding (see Molina)
Orthographic Variants:
tēizcalih
IPAspelling:
teːiskɑlih
Alonso de Molina:
teizcali. cosa que da doctrina y abiua y da entendimiento. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 96r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.
Frances Karttunen:
TĒIZCALIH something instructive, didactic / cosa que da doctrina y aviva y da entendimiento (M) [(2)Cf.52v]. M also has teizcalti with the same sense. See (I)ZCALIĀ. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 220.