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tenochtic.

Headword: 
tenochtic.
Principal English Translation: 

something painted, mottled (See Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tenōchtic
IPAspelling: 
tenoːtʃtik
Frances Karttunen: 

TENŌCHTIC something painted, mottled / pintado [(1)Tp.225]. This contrasts with the initial element of TENOCHTITLAN in vowel length of the second syllable.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 225.