tlanezcayotilli.

Headword:

tlanezcayotilli.

Principal English Translation:

a sign or figure with an attached meaning (see Molina)

IPAspelling:

tɬɑneskɑjoːtiːlli

Alonso de Molina:

tlanezcayotilli. cosa figurada o significada.
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:

In contemporary Eastern Huastecan Nahuatl, the speech scroll is described as the tlanezcayotiltlatolli.
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.

themes:

Speech, Speaking, Oral Tradition