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totli.

Headword: 
totli.
Principal English Translation: 

totli = synonym for the Prairie Falcon
tohtli = synonym for falcons in general
(see Hunn, attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
tohtli
IPAspelling: 
tohtɬi
Frances Karttunen: 

TOH-TLI sparrow hawk / gavilán (T) [(1)Tp.241,(1)Rp.151]. See TLOH-TLI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 243.

Attestations from sources in English: 

TOH-TLI. Synonym for falcons in general (Falconidae) [FC: 43 totli]. See the main heading under TLOH-TLI.
Fr. Bernardino ]de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 11 – Earthly Things, no. 14, Part XII, 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University of Utah, 1963); and, E. S. Hunn, "The Aztec Fascination with Birds: Deciphering Sixteenth-Century Sources," unpublished manuscript, 2022, cited here with permission.

TO-TLI. Synonym for the Prairie Falcon (Falco mexicanus) [FC: 43 totli]. See the main heading under TLOH-TLI.
Fr. Bernardino ]de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 11 – Earthly Things, no. 14, Part XII, 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University of Utah, 1963); and, E. S. Hunn, "The Aztec Fascination with Birds: Deciphering Sixteenth-Century Sources," unpublished manuscript, 2022, cited here with permission.

themes: 
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