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atecaxitl.

Headword: 
atecaxitl.
Principal English Translation: 

a container in which mud is mixed (see Karttunen); also a place name in the state of Veracruz (see attestations)

Orthographic Variants: 
ātecaxitl
IPAspelling: 
ɑːtekɑʃitɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

ĀTECAX(I)-TL container in which mud is mixed / cajete (donde baten el lodo) (T)[(1)Tp.171]. See Ā-TL, TECAX(I)-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 12.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

Atecaxi es una localidad en el municipio de Ixhuacan de los Reyes, Veracruz.
"Referente para localidades de Ixhuacán de los Reyes, Casa UV, Coyopolan," Entorno Político, 13 Febrero 2019.

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