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teyocoyani.

Headword: 
teyocoyani.
Principal English Translation: 

creator of people

IPAspelling: 
teːyoːkoyɑni
Frances Karttunen: 

TĒYŌCOYANI creator (of humanity) / creador, autor de los hombres (S) [(2)Bf.4r,6r]. See YŌCOY(A).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 239.

Attestations from sources in English: 

ca dios techivani teyocoyani = God is the Progenitor and Creator of people
Fray Alonso de Molina, Nahua Confraternities in Early Colonial Mexico: The 1552 Nahuatl Ordinances of fray Alonso de Molina, OFM, ed. and trans., Barry D. Sell (Berkeley: Academy of American Franciscan History, 2002), 98–99.

teyocoyani = Creator (Juan Bautista, ca. 1599, Mexico City)
Susanne Klaus, Uprooted Christianity: The Preaching of the Christian Doctrine in Mexico, Based on Franciscan Sermons of the 16th Century Written in Nahuatl (Bonn: Bonner Amerikanistische Studien e. V. c/o Seminar für Völkerkunde, Universität Bonn, 1999), 145.