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head town (cabecera, in the Spanish town hierarchy system); the root is tzontecon- (cabeza, head)

(Amecameca, 1746)
Frances Karttunen and James Lockhart, "Textos en náhuatl del siglo XVIII: Un documento de Amecameca, 1746," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 13 (1978), 153–175, ver 159.

Orthographic Variants: 
tzonteuilacachtic
to feel like one’s head is going to explode due to problems.

a term for what Christians would later call a demon, one that fell from heaven and had long hair (see attestations; see also Tzontemoctzin)

Orthographic Variants: 
Tzontemoc

a personal name; the name of a ruler of Huexotla (Huejutla)

(central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 8 -- Kings and Lords, no. 14, Part IX, 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, 1951), 14.

grandson of Huitzilihuitl, son of Huehue Zaca; this Tzontemoc was tlacateccatl in the time of Axayacatzin and Ahuitzotzin; he bore a son named Yaopaintzin

(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, 94–95, 96–97.

tsontepeːwɑ
Orthographic Variants: 
tzontepeua
Orthographic Variants: 
tzontepeui
tsonteki
Orthographic Variants: 
çontequi

to judge or sentence something (see Karttunen and Molina)

to cut wood or vines with a machete.
tsontekiliɑː

to sentence someone

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), 241.

to cut s.t. for s.o. with a machete.
tsontetilistɬi
Orthographic Variants: 
tzuntetililiztli

a rebellion (see Molina)

tsontetɬ

someone rebellious and obstinate (see Molina); someone stubborn and defiant (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tzuntezcatl

a type of worm (see Molina)