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.
a lapidary
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 10: The People", fol. 16v, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/10/folio/16v/images/0 Accessed 5 September 2025.
Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written:
pret. agentive of tequi. 238
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