stone rolling pin used to grind cornmeal on the metate (see Karttunen)
Orthographic Variants:
metlamāitl
IPAspelling:
metɬɑmɑːitɬ
Frances Karttunen:
METLAMĀ(I)-TL stone rolling pin used to grind cornmeal on the metate / metlapile, la mano de metate (Z) [(3)Zp. 81, 84. 167]. A more common name for this is METLAPĪL-LI. See METL(A)-TL, MĀ(I)-TL. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 143.