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teizcali.

Headword: 
teizcali.
Principal English Translation: 

something instructive, didactic (see Karttunen); something that provides understanding (see Molina)

Orthographic Variants: 
tēizcalih
IPAspelling: 
teːiskɑlih
Alonso de Molina: 

teizcali. cosa que da doctrina y abiua y da entendimiento.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 96r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TĒIZCALIH something instructive, didactic / cosa que da doctrina y aviva y da entendimiento (M) [(2)Cf.52v]. M also has teizcalti with the same sense. See (I)ZCALIĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 220.

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