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Tehuetzquiti.

Headword: 
Tehuetzquiti.
Principal English Translation: 

the name of a ruler of Tenochtitlan; baptized as don Diego de San Francisco Tehuetzquititzin
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlateloloco, Texcoco, Culhuacan, and other Nahua Altepetl in Central Mexico: The Nahuatl and Spanish annals and accounts. University of Oklahoma Press. 1997. pp. 98–99.

Orthographic Variants: 
Tehuetzquititzin
Attestations from sources in English: 

As published in Wikipedia, this ruler's personal name glyph in the Codex Aubin shows a smiling mouth with fangs. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_de_San_Francisco_Tehuetzquititzin#/m.... A very similar glyph appears in a copy made by Karl H. Berendt (copyist)and scanned by the Mesoamerican Language Texts Digitization Project. This second one appears in Wikipédia, https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_de_San_Francisco_Tehuetzquititzin. Finally, a similar mouth appears in two glyphs in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs under the title Huetzquiz. These come from the Matrícula de Huexotzinco ff. 529r and 666r.