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teach.

Headword: 
teach.
Principal English Translation: 

a house servant (see Molina, who says this is the same as teaach)

Orthographic Variants: 
teaach
Alonso de Molina: 

teach. lo mesmo es que teaach.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 91r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

teaach. paje, criado, mozo de casa, o corcobado.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 91r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

in teaachhuan yn ibaxehuan omoteneuhtzino miccatzintli arçobispo visurrey omoyetzticatca. = the pages of the said deceased, the late archbishop and viceroy; (central Mexico, 1612)
Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 210–211.

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