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Tlamin.

Headword: 
Tlamin.
Principal English Translation: 

a "shooter," or a person of a certain ethnicity; the tlaminque (or tlaminqueh, with the glottal stop, the plural) were people who shot arrows, or, when in upper case, the Tlaminque were an ethnic group that fit within the Chichimeca group

Orthographic Variants: 
Tamin, tlaminque, tamime
Attestations from sources in English: 

Words starting with tlamin- relate to the verb tlamina, to shoot an arrow. Tamimeh is another plural for Tlamin, such as that found in the Florentine Codex.
Digital Florentine Codex/Códice Florentino Digital, edited by Kim N. Richter and Alicia Maria Houtrouw, "Book undefined: The People", fol. 121r, Getty Research Institute, 2023. https://florentinecodex.getty.edu/en/book/10/folio/121r/images/0#tags Accessed 2 October 2025.

themes: 
Race, Ethnicity, Identity
Weapons, Shields, Heraldry
See also: 
Chichimecatl.
tlamina.