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Totonametl.

Headword: 
Totonametl.
Principal English Translation: 

the resplendent one (the sun)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, 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), 15.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs for at least two glyphs for Totonametl, which show birds (tototl) with radiance (tonalli) coming off from around their heads. The bird plays a phonetic role.

in totonametl in xippilli = the resplendent one, the turquoise prince (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, 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), 15.

vmpa in tonatiuh ichan in jlhvicac, ticoioviz, ticaviltiz in totonametl in manjc = Thy real home, thy property, thy lot is the home of the sun there in the heavens. Thou art to praise, to gladden Totonametl in manic (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, 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), 171.