Teiztlacahua. | Nahuatl Dictionary

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Headword:

Teiztlacahua.

Principal English Translation:

a person's name (gender not specified); could have something to do with lying

Orthographic Variants:

Teyztlacava

Attestations from sources in English:

ytoca teyztlacava = named Teiztlacahua (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), 162–163.