texotli.

Headword: 
texotli.
Principal English Translation: 

the color blue (see Molina), turquoise blue; this can also be xihuitl, and in glyphs, "xo"

See the hieroglyph for texotli from the Codex Mendoza:
https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/content/texotli-43r

Orthographic Variants: 
texoctl
IPAspelling: 
teʃohtɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

texotli. color azul.
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: 

texuctica tlacuiloli = painted blue
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 114.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

ce tzomitilmatli texotli = una manta de lana azul (Amecameca, 1625)
Vidas y bienes olvidados: Testamentos en náhuatl y castellano del siglo XVII, vol. 3, Teresa Rojas Rabiela, et al, eds. (México: CIESAS, 2002), 164–165.

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