teyauh.

Headword: 
teyauh.
Principal English Translation: 

a murderer, a killer (as shown in the Florentine Codex, Book, 10, folio 25 verso) (SW)

or, a person's name (attested as male)

Orthographic Variants: 
teiaouh, teyaouh, Tayauhtli
Attestations from sources in English: 

yautl teiaouh iollocococ, izcuintli in iiollo, uel chichi, tecocoliani, tetoliniani, temictiani.... = the murderer, the murderer of people, a dog at heart--a dog indeed. [He is} a hater of people, a troublemaker, a killer.... [Note: teyauh is equated here with yaotl, which means combatant or enemy in the context of war. (SW)]
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book 10: The People", fol. 25v, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/10/folio/25v/images/0 Accessed 5 September 2025

ytoca tayauh [sic] = named Teyauh (Cuernavaca region, ca. 1540s)
The Book of Tributes: Early Sixteenth-Century Nahuatl Censuses from Morelos, ed. and transl. S. L. Cline, (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 1993), 144–145.

Teyauh, a name that comes from teyauhtli, marigolds
P"re-Cuauhtemoc Nahuatl Names," http://www.calmecacanahuac.com/blog/uncategorized/pre-cuauhtemoc-nahuatl...

themes: 
Crime, Punishment
War, Conflict