timalli.

Headword: 
timalli.
Principal English Translation: 

1) an abscess with pus or evidence of infection (see Molina); or, something rotten; the equivalent of temalli

2) gentle woman
Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/timalli/279507, citing Sahagún, Escolios.

3) a man's name; e.g., a Toltec man named Timal, known to have super necromantic powers (mentioned in the Historia Tolteca Chichimeca of 1598)

Orthographic Variants: 
temalli
IPAspelling: 
tiːmɑlli
Alonso de Molina: 

timalli. podre, o materia.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 113r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

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

timalli = pus (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 132.

themes: 
Health, Sickness, Wellness, Medicine
See also: 
temalli.