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nauhtetl.

Headword: 
nauhtetl.
Principal English Translation: 

four (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
nāuhtetl
IPAspelling: 
nɑːwtetɬ
Alonso de Molina: 

nauhtetl. quatro.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 063v. col. 2. v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

NĀUHTE-TL four / cuatro (M) [(2)Tp.168). T glosses this as ‘a bit.’ See NĀHU[I], TE-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 160.

Attestations from sources in English: 

nauhtel yn huehuey calli yn nenecoc mamacuilmatl yhuan ca quezquitetl yn huehuey xacalli yvan yn acalcuezcomatl yvan yz cequi çan pilolcuezcomatl = four very large houses each [measuring] five matl across, large straw-roofed houses, and subterranean [?] granaries and some only subsidiary [?] granaries (central Mexico, early seventeenth century)
Codex Chimalpahin: Society and Politics in Mexico Tenochtitlan, Tlatelolco, Culhuacan, and Other Nahuatl Altepetl in Central Mexico; The Nahuatl and Spanish Annals and Accounts Collected and Recorded by don Domingo de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Quauhtlehuanitzin, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Susan Schroeder (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), vol. 2, 210–211.

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