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quechtetzomitl.

Headword: 
quechtetzomitl.
Principal English Translation: 

shawl, protection for neck (See Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
ketʃtetsomitɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

QUECHTETZOM(I)-TL shawl, protection for neck / cabello o pelo (M for tzontli), lana, seda, crin (S for tzomitl) [(1)Bf.7r]. This entry is questionable in both form and gloss. Because the single attestation is in possessed form, the final element may be either TZON-TLI or TZOM(I)-TL. This occurs in a metaphor with MĀNĀHUAL-LI 'coverlet, blanket,' and the sense of the whole construction is 'protection.' See QUECHTE-TL, TZOM(I)-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 207.