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to rise and depart, or get up; or, to be brave and rebel (intransitive); to raise; to carry something heavy; or, to sing a song (transitive); in modern Eastern Huasteca Nahuatl, to be from a certain place

carry out, complete; verify

a land portion (not always land that has been inherited)

Rebecca Horn, Postconquest Coyoacan: Nahua-Spanish Relations in Central Mexico, 1519-1650 (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1997), 127.

grace
(a loanword from Spanish)

Egypt, the place name

(central Mexico, early seventeenth century)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 154–155.

Montezuma Oropendola, a bird (see Hunn, attestations)

something red, crimson (see Lockhart and Karttunen); chili-red (see Sahagún)

grasses, hay, straw, weeds, forage, fodder, bulrushes

to work; to serve; to govern

an epidemic disease, possibly typhus; a serious bodily fever

(see attestations)

the name of a month of twenty days (the seventeenth month, according to the Florentine Codex)

James Lockhart, We People Here: Nahuatl Accounts of the Conquest of Mexico, Repertorium Columbianum v. 1 (Los Angeles: UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 1993), 178.

Tititl corresponded with the start of the new year, the equivalent of January 18th, according to Chimalpahin's reckoning in the Christian calendar.

(central Mexico, seventeenth century)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 120–121.

tribute officer at sub-cabildo level
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), 154.

the human head, or, the top or the end of 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), 230.

also: summit, peak, apex (see Karttunen)

to want or desire (see Molina); to wish (see Lockhart); to covet (often referring to someone else's wife or daughter)

he, she, it (see Karttunen); that, that one (see Molina)

also: someone; what
Annals of His Time: Don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, James Lockhart, Susan Schroeder, and Doris Namala, eds. and transl. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006), 68–69. (17th c., central Mexico)

an image of someone, a substitute, or a delegate (see Molina); a ritual representative of a deity in religious ceremonies (see attestations); see also ixiptla

to feed (or, cause to eat)

a butterfly (see Molina and Karttunen); also, a person's name (attested as male and possibly female)