tepatlactli.

Headword: 
tepatlactli.
Principal English Translation: 

a wide flat stone (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
tepɑtɬɑktɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

tepatlactli. losa o piedra ancha y llana.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 102v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

matlactin tepatlactli quimamamatimani...tla ca nenca tozti. = ten thin slabs of stone that one is always hauling around...they are our nails.
Thelma D. Sullivan, "Nahuatl Proverbs, Conundrums, and Metaphors, Collected by Sahagún," Estudios de Cultura Náhuatl 4 (1963), 130–131.

themes: 
Stones, Masonry