See an image that represents tepoztli in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).
tepozpitzqui in itequiuh centomi = The metal workers' tax is 1 tomín (Coyoacan, mid-sixteenth cent.)
Beyond the Codices, eds. Arthur J.O. Anderson, Frances Berdan, and James Lockhart (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center, 1976), Doc. 25, 142–143.
intepuzmaquauh, iuhquin atl monecuiloa = their iron swords were curved like a stream of water
James Lockhart, We People Here: Nahuatl Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico, Repertorium Columbianum v. 1 (Los Angeles: UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1993), 96.
çan muchi tepuztli in iniautlatqui teputzli in cōmaquia, tepuztli in conaquia intzontecon, tepuztli in inma quauh, tepuztli in intlavitol, tepuztli in inchimal, tepuztli in intopil = Their was gear was all iron. They clothed their bodies in iron, they put iron on their heads, their swords were iron, their bows were iron, and their shields and lances were iron.
James Lockhart, We People Here: Nahuatl Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico, Repertorium Columbianum v. 1 (Los Angeles: UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1993), 80.
niquitohua nopanpa tzilinis tepostli = I say the bells are to be rung for me (Santa Bárbara Xolalpan, Toluca Valley, 1701)
Caterina Pizzigoni, ed., Testaments of Toluca (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2007), 65.
tepustli = bells (San Juan Bautista, Toluca Valley, 1737)
Caterina Pizzigoni, ed., Testaments of Toluca (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2007), 107.
nopampa tzinliniz micatepoztli = the bells are to be rung for me
Caterina Pizzigoni, ed., Testaments of Toluca (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2007), 53.
tepoztica motlaquentiaya = He was dressed in iron (decked out in full armor)
Here in This Year: Seventeenth-Century Nahuatl Annals of the Tlaxcala-Puebla Valley, ed. and transl. Camilla Townsend, with an essay by James Lockhart (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010), 80–81.
tlatepuztoconi = metal instrument for planting things
tepuztopilli = metal staff; paired with lanza, even though a topilli (topile in Spanish) was a staff associated with a civil or religious office
Louise M. Burkhart, Holy Wednesday: A Nahua Drama from Early Colonial Mexico (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996), 230, 242.
yuã tepuztica tetezotzõaloc ynacayotzĩ = and his body was struck repeatedly with metal (mid sixteenth century, Central Mexico)
Louise M. Burkhart, Before Guadalupe: The Virgin Mary in Early Colonial Nahuatl Literature, Institute for Mesoamerican Studies Monograph 13 (Albany: University at Albany, 2001), 126.
In modern Eastern Huastecan Nahuatl we see "notepoz" used for "my computer."
See the IDIEZ instructional video in modern Eastern Huastecan Nahuatl / Ver el video hecho por IDIEZ para la instrucción el en Náhuatl de la Huasteca del Este: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLslDBqc4kc&feature=youtu.be
miccatepustli = bells (San Juan Bautista, Toluca Valley, 1733)
Caterina Pizzigoni, ed., Testaments of Toluca (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2007), 107.
The form "nomegcatepos, for nomiccatepoz, my bells, with e for i and g for c, is something of an anomaly." (San Juan Bautista, Toluca Valley, 1733)
Caterina Pizzigoni, ed., Testaments of Toluca (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2007), 114.