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texixicoani.

Headword: 
texixicoani.
Principal English Translation: 

one who deceives and mocks others (see Molina), or, a magician

IPAspelling: 
teːʃiʃikoɑːni
Alonso de Molina: 

texixicoani. engañador y burlador.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 112v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents texixicoani in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

texixicoani = the magicians
Digital Florentine Codex, Book 10, 9th chapter. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/book/10/folio/20v