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teucyotl.

Headword: 
teucyotl.
Principal English Translation: 

lordship

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), 235.

IPAspelling: 
teːwkyoːtɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

TĒUCYŌ-TL lordship, dominion / señoría de estado o dignidad (M) This is abundantly attested in B and also appears in C. It contrasts with -TĒCUIYŌ, the possessed form of TĒUC-TLI. See TĒUC-TLI, -YŌ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 237.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

tēuctli, -yōtl. 235

Attestations from sources in English: 

teucyotl = nobility, lordship
Daniel Garrison Brinton, Ancient Nahuatl Poetry: Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems (1887), 163.