the cutting edge of a knife (see Molina; partly a loanword from Spanish, cuchillo, knife)
Orthographic Variants:
cochillo tentli
Alonso de Molina:
cuchillo tentli. filo de cuchillo. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 25v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.
cochillo tentli. filo de cuchillo. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 23r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.