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teconi.

Headword: 
teconi.
Principal English Translation: 

something cuttable

James Lockhart, Nahuatl as Written: Lessons in Older Written Nahuatl, with Copious Examples and Texts (Stanford: Stanford University Press and UCLA Latin American Studies, 2001), 233.

IPAspelling: 
tekoːni
Frances Karttunen: 

TECŌNI something in need of cutting / cosa que se debe cortar (C) [(1)Cf.45v]. This is derived from the nonactive form of TEQU(I) 'to cut' and is opposite in meaning from TLATECÓNI 'cutting instrument.'
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 217.

Lockhart’s Nahuatl as Written: 

passive agentive of tequi. 233