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tehuitztli.

Headword: 
tehuitztli.
Principal English Translation: 

bill, beak, pointed stone (See Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
tewitstɬi
Frances Karttunen: 

TEHUITZ-TLI bill, beak, pointed stone / su pico (pájaro, etc.) (T for possessed form), piedra puntiaguda (S) [(2)Tp.134,224]. If this is derived from TE-TL 'stone' and HUITZ-TLI 'thorn,' as the glosses imply, the vowels of both syllables should be short, but in one of two attestations T has them both long. See TE-TL, HUITZ-TLI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 219.

themes: 
Stones, Masonry