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tezqui.

Headword: 
tezqui.
Principal English Translation: 

the woman who grinds maize or other substances using the metate (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
teski
Alonso de Molina: 

tezqui. la que muele mayz o otra cosa en metlatl.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 112v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

yn que otlamania yn queni onechtequipanohuaya yn topileque yolcapixque ychcapixque milpixque tezque auh za no yuhqui tequipanolozque yn nopiltzin noxhuihuan = como me servían los topiles y guardaganados, los pastores y guardianes de las milpas y molenderas, asimesmo le han de servir a mi hijo y a mis nietos (San Cristóbal Ecatepec, 1634)
Vidas y bienes olvidados: Testamentos en náhuatl y castellano del siglo XVII, vol. 3, Teresa Rojas Rabiela, et al, eds. (México: CIESAS, 2002), 204–205.

cente tezquina = una piedra labrada (s. XX, Milpa Alta)
Los cuentos en náhuatl de Doña Luz Jiménez, recop. Fernando Horcasitas y Sarah O. de Ford (México: UNAM, 1979), 52–53.

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