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tlamauhtli.

Headword:

tlamauhtli.

Principal English Translation:

crazed, berserk; or, infected (possibly from tlahmati, with the glottal stop); but see also the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs for the glyphs of the name "Tlamauh" or "Tlamao," which may point to a wise one, a person who knows things (from tlamati, without the glottal stop)

Orthographic Variants:

tlamauh, tlamao

Alonso de Molina:

tlamauhtli = enloquecido, inficionado
Molina 1571, Part I, Spanish to Nahuatl, 54v and 75r.

Attestations from sources in English:

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