Principal English Translation:
something to drink with something ground in it, perhaps a gruel (see Lockhart); entered Spanish as tejate, a frothy beverage served in gourds
Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written:
ātexā-tl = something to drink with something ground in it, perhaps a gruel. tlamātzoalli ātexātl, food, the fare. ātextli, something watery and ground, from ātl and teci
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), 211.