Search Issues: Update 2026-09-16 - Repairs to some of our search pages are ongoing. Thank you for your continued patience!

Meanwhile, elements of the Advanced Search are working and the Alphabetical Listings are working, too.

tetlan xolochhuiani.

Headword: 
tetlan xolochhuiani.
Principal English Translation: 

one who scolds or shows the teeth, growling like a dog (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
tetlan xolochuiani
Alonso de Molina: 

tetlan xolochuiani. el que regaña o muestra los dientes, y gruñe como perro.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 109r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.