tlanezcayotiliztli.

Headword:

tlanezcayotiliztli.

Principal English Translation:

signification, figure, or example (see Molina); or, a speech scroll (see attestations)

IPAspelling:

tɬɑneskɑjoːtilistɬi

Alonso de Molina:

tlanezcayotiliztli. significacion, figura o exemplo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 128v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English:

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

In contemporary Eastern Huastecan Nahuatl, a speech scroll is described as the tlanezcayotiltlatolli, at least in one example.
See the keyword and an especially fine example of a scroll in the Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 10: The People", fol. 45r, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/10/folio/45r/images/0 Accessed 14 September 2025.