tepal.

Headword: 
tepal.
Principal English Translation: 

in relation to another person, by means of another, for another; or, a stranger

Attestations from sources in English: 

tepal intzopiloti = https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/book/6/folio/192r

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

"tépal nitzopiloti, como si dixese: 'Nunca falta, porque las auras hallan siempre qué coman.'" (López Austin & García Quintana 2000)
"This saying is said by a homeless person and one who does not have any job, if they ask him where he gets his food and drink. He says, 'Tepal nitzopiloti,”' as if he were saying, 'It is never lacking, because vultures always find something to eat.'” (García Garagarza 2023)
Available at Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book Undefined: Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy", fol. 192r, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/6/folio/192r Accessed 8 July 2025.

tepal = lo ageno (Mecayapan 2002)
Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/tepal

tepal = mediante alguno o por él
Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/tepal/132357