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metlatetl.

Headword: 
metlatetl.
Principal English Translation: 

type of stone used in making metates (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
metɬɑtetɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

METLATE-TL type of stone used in making metates / piedra de metate (Z) [(1)Zp. 98]. Z also has TEMETL(A)-TL with the same gloss. See METL(A)-TL, TE-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 143.

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