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cectli.

Headword: 
cectli.
Principal English Translation: 

ice, snow (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
sektɬi
Frances Karttunen: 

CEC-TLI ice, snow / helado, nieve, hielo (Z) [(4)Zp.67,88,202]. This is found as a free form only in Z, where once out of four times it is given with a long vowel. Z also gives it in some compounds with a long vowel. CEC is abundantly attested in the other sources as an element of compounds, always with a short vowel. See CE-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 27.

themes: 
Weather, Climate