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tehel.
Headword:
tehel.
Principal English Translation:
brave (see attestations)
Orthographic Variants:
teel
Attestations from sources in English:
See an image that represents tehel in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).
Gordon Whittaker says that terms relating to elli that start with tel- are references to being brave.
In the Matrícula de Huexotzinco there is a glyph of the personal name Teel ("Brave") that shows a set of lips (the phonetic te- or ten- from tentli) and a heart, seeming there for the semantic reading of bravery but also internal organs, one of the definitions of elli. (SW)