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a natural spring, water source
Louise M. Burkhart, Before Guadalupe: The Virgin Mary in Early Colonial Nahuatl Literature, Institute for Mesoamerican Studies Monograph 13 (Albany: University at Albany, 2001), 95.

the cypress tree (see Molina)

to call to someone (see Siméon); to address people, to converse (see Sahagún)

to feel pain, to feel badly, to be angry, to feel regret, sorrow, contrition (intrans.); to made someone else feel badly or angry (trans.)
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), 249.

to sprout again, to grow, to appear (see Karttunen)

mother; this is the form with the absolutive ending, but it was usually possessed (see Molina and Karttunen); also seen in reference to afterbirth (see Sahagún, central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 6 -- Rhetoric and Moral Philosophy, No. 14, Part 7, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1961), chapter 30, 169.

a comet; or, a year, referring to the calendar of 365 days, xiuhpohualli (see attestations)

Note that "Comet"--especially the personal name--in early Nahuatl is often written Xiuhtli. "Comet" was apparently a name given to boys born at the end of a 52-year cycle, which seems to connect it to a calendrical expression such as "year." (see the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs for examples)

a Spanish dry measure, one-twelfth of a fanega, typically used to explain how much land can be planted in this quantify of seed; almoh is the contemporary variation from Eastern Huastecan Nahuatl (IDIEZ)
The Tlaxcalan Actas: A Compendium of the Records of the Cabildo of Tlaxcala (1545-1627), eds. James Lockhart, Frances Berdan, and Arthur J.O. Anderson (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1986), 15; and see Caterina Pizzigoni, ed., Testaments of Toluca (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2007), 26.

a yoke (of oxen); or, a measure of land, perhaps the amount a yoke of oxen could plow
(a loanword from Spanish)

a bad thing, very bad; something evil

to be shattered, disintegrate

Caterina Pizzigoni, ed., Testaments of Toluca (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Center Publications, 2007), 41.

to dream something

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), 233.

something delicate and soft (see Molina and Karttunen); warm (see Sahagún)

a Chalcan princess who died in 1477 C.E., according to Chimalpahin

border(s), boundary, boundaries (see Molina)

something bad, very bad; something immoral

to become messed up, harmed, damaged; to be violated (intransitive); to have a stomach ache

to paint, write, make a record

when (noninterrogative), then (see Karttunen)