tlatecqui.

Headword: 
tlatecqui.
Principal English Translation: 

one who works stones, often precious stones; literally, one who cuts things
James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 238.

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑtekki
Alonso de Molina: 

tlatecqui. lapidario que labra piedras preciosas.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 134v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

pret. agentive of tequi. 238

Attestations from sources in English: 

a lapidary
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), 26.

themes: 
Jewelry, Adornment, Accouterments
Occupations, Responsibilities