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tentoc.

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tentoc.
IPAspelling: 
teːntok
Alonso de Molina: 

tentoc. (pret. otentoca.) cosa que esta llena, o cosa que esta puesta en algun lugar.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 99v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TĒNTOC something filled up, something heaped, thrown together in a place / cosa que está llena o cosa que está puesta en algún lugar (M) [(1)Zp.221, (2)Xp.85]. See TĒM(A), the verb O.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 226.