tepozpitzqui.

Headword: 
tepozpitzqui.
Principal English Translation: 

metalworker (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
tepuzpitzqui
Alonso de Molina: 

tepuzpitzqui. herrero, o fundidor de cobre. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 104r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

a coppercaster Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 10 -- The People, No. 14, Part 11, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), 26. ce maestro tepozpitzqui. timacehualtin ytoca. ____ quimihualli visurrey ynic quinmachtiz ompa tlaca yancuic mexico 8.tin yn Juldadostin quinhuicac. españolesme = a master blacksmith, one of us commoners, named ____, set out and left for New Mexico. The viceroy sent him to teach the people there in New Mexico; he accompanied eight Spanish soldiers (central Mexico, 1609) 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), 158–9.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Xil ten moldre español tepotzpitzque = Jil de Molde, español, herrero (Tulancingo, México, 1577) Vidas y bienes olvidados: Testamentos indígenas novohispanos, vol. 2, Testamentos en náhuatl y castellano del siglo XVI, eds., Teresa Rojas Rabiela, Elsa Leticia Rea López, Constantino Medina Lima (Mexico: Consejo Nacional de Ciencias Tecnología, 1999), 194–195.