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tlepitza.

Headword: 
tlepitza.
Principal English Translation: 

to blow on the fire to make it burn better (see Molina); also, a person's name (see attestations)

IPAspelling: 
tɬepiːtsɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

tlepitza. ni. (pret. onitlepitz.) soplar el fuego paraque arda.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 147v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

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

miguel tetlepitzac (a person's name) (Tepetlaoztoc, sixteenth century)
Barbara J. Williams and H. R. Harvey, The Códice de Santa María Asunción: Facsimile and Commentary: Households and Lands in Sixteenth-Century Tepetlaoztoc (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1997), 83.

themes: 
Fire, Tobacco, Incense
Names (for people, deities)