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teizcaliani.

Headword: 
teizcaliani.
Principal English Translation: 

a tutor, a teacher, one who instructs someone (see Karttunen and Molina)

IPAspelling: 
teːiskɑliɑːni
Alonso de Molina: 

teizcaliani. el que industria y doctrina a otro.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 96r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TĒIZCALIĀNI tutor, one who instructs someone / el que industria y doctrina a otro (M) [(1)Cf.52v]. See (I)ZCALIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 220.

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