auh in itentzon cenca viac, cenca vitlatztic, tentzonpachtic = And his beard was very long—exceedingly long. He was heavily bearded (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 3 -- The Origin of the Gods, Part IV, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1978), 13.
Tentzontli, tetentzon: in tetētzon mozcalia, tlanonotzalli, tlazcaltilli tlamachtilli = [Another] of Noble Lineage: The one of noble lineage [is] discreet, well reared, well taught, well instructed. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 20.
tentzontli, tetentzon = "one's beard" (noble)
Available at Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 10: The People", fol. 12r, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/10/folio/12r/images/0 Accessed 4 September 2025.
When ixquamolli is combined with tentzontli (lip hair), it refers to someone close to the speaker. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Personal communication, James Lockhart, in sessions analyzing Huehuetlatolli.
tentzontli = beard (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 111.
totẽtzõ muzcalttia veyaquia = Our beard: It grows, it becomes long (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 256.
tetentzon mochachamoaoa = Beard of noblemen: He is conceited (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 259.