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tepozpitza.

Headword: 
tepozpitza.
Principal English Translation: 

to melt or smelt metal (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
tepuzpitza
Alonso de Molina: 

tepuzpitza. ni. (pret. onitepuzpitz.) derretir, o fundir metal.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 104r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Tepozpitzaya = Fundían metal (ca. 1582, México)
Luis Reyes García, ¿Como te confundes? ¿Acaso no somos conquistados? Anales de Juan Bautista (Mexico: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, Biblioteca Lorenzo Boturini Insigne y Nacional Basílica de Guadalupe, 2001), 160.

themes: 
Metals, Mining