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tecellotzintli.
Headword:
tecellotzintli.
Principal English Translation:
a gift, life's sustenance (?) (see attestations)
Attestations from sources in Spanish:
at cana cocauhcatzintli tecellotzintli = Tal vez en alguna parte delimítanos una propiedad, un regalo. [The notes from 1937 say tecollotzintli, and further suggests the meaning to be "From where will the ground yellow maize come; where will we find it for our life's sustenance?"] (Quauhtinchan, s. XVI)