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pechtli.

Headword: 
pechtli.
Principal English Translation: 

petate de zacate; mat; rug; flooring; architectural foundation

IPAspelling: 
petʃtɬi
Frances Karttunen: 

PECH-TLI sleeping mat, petate / petate de zacate (Z for ĀCAPECH-TLI) [(1)Zp.139]. This is not attested as a free element. It appears as prefixed TLAPECH-TLI, reduplicated PEHPECH-TLI, and in compounds. See PĒCHOĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 190.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents pechtli in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

rug; foundation; flooring
Stephanie Wood and Robert Haskett, notes from seminar with James Lockhart.

see glyphs for pechtli in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs (ed. Stephanie Wood),
https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/content/pechtli-mh484r
https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/content/pechtli-mdz20r

See also: 
petlatl.