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itetl.

Headword: 
itetl.
Principal English Translation: 

belly or stomach (see Molina and Karttunen); pregnant woman (see asstestations)

IPAspelling: 
ihtetɬ
Alonso de Molina: 

itetl. barriga o vientre.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 42v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

IHTE-TL belly / barriga o vientre (M) A common variant of this is IHTI-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 100.

Attestations from sources in English: 

ihtetl = ventre, femme enceinte = belly, pregnant woman
Gran Diccionario Náhuatl, citing A. Wimmer 2004, who cites the Florentine Codex, https://gdn.iib.unam.mx/diccionario/itetl/50867; translation from French to English here by Stephanie Wood, Editor

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