tepehualiztli.

Headword:

tepehualiztli.

Principal English Translation:

conquest, war making, the defeat of enemies (see Molina and Lockhart)

Orthographic Variants:

tepeualiztli

IPAspelling:

teːpeːwɑlistɬi

Alonso de Molina:

tepeualiztli. conquista, o vencimiento delos enemigos.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 102v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English:

Auh in iquac yn oconpehualtique yn intepeualiz in inteyaochivaliz ca = And when they began their conquest and war making
James Lockhart, We People Here: Nahuatl Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico, Repertorium Columbianum v. 1 (Los Angeles: UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1993), 290–291.

themes:

Imperialism (Indigenous)

War, Conflict