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a divinity, divine force, sacred force; "Lord [Possessor] of the Spear-Thrower (atlatl)" -- known especially to the Chalmeca (people of Chalma); has human sacrifice associations; also a personal name
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 100, 107.

to starve someone to death (literally, to make someone be hungry) (see Molina and Karttunen)

vendor, seller, shopkeeper

James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 237.

provision; a governmental pronouncement
(a loanword from Spanish)

plus, when followed by small numbers; or two of something (also seen as on- and o-)

James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 228.

to be faint of heart, dispirited, depressed; to faint

Susanne Klaus, Uprooted Christianity: The Preaching of the Christian Doctrine in Mexico, Based on Franciscan Sermons of the 16th Century Written in Nahuatl (Bonn: Bonner Amerikanistische Studien e. V. c/o Seminar für Völkerkunde, Universität Bonn, 1999), 243.

a penitent person, or a deserving one, a blessed one, a hermit

there is; there arises; sits upon

Robert Haskett and Stephanie Wood's notes from Nahuatl sessions with James Lockhart and subsequent research.

for all to be lost (see karttunen)

one who enriches, or glorifies; also a preacher (see Molina)

government palace (see attestations)

to transport something (see Molina and Karttunen)

to inform someone, or to come to know something from someone else, or to know something about someone (applicative of mati)

James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 223.

to make, build, or do for someone (applicative of chihua)

sequence of verbal prefixes equal to ticon-

James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 239.

to lower or incline the head (see Molina); to swallow

to give music to others; to perform music (see Karttunen); to sing for others (see attestations)