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telolotli.

Headword: 
telolotli.
Principal English Translation: 

a pellet; a ball (see Karttunen and Molina)

IPAspelling: 
telolohtɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

telolotli. bodoque de piedra.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 96v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TELOLOH-TLI pellet / bodoque de piedra (M) [(1)Cf.116v,(1)Tp.137,(1)Rp.96]. See TE-TL, OLOLOĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 221.

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