a healer (see Molina); a doctor, curer (see Karttunen)
Orthographic Variants:
tepahtiani
IPAspelling:
teːpɑhtiɑːni
Alonso de Molina:
tepatiani. medico que cura. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 102v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.
Frances Karttunen:
TĒPAHTIĀNI doctor, curer / medico que cura (M) [(3)Xp.85]. See TĒPAHTIĀ. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 228.