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tepechtli.

Headword: 
tepechtli.
Principal English Translation: 

foundation, base, flooring; taken into Mexican Spanish as tepescle

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents tepechtli in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

tepechtli = lecho o cama de piedra
Anton Saurwein, "Autenticidad de glifos toponímicos del 'Círculo de Tepanecáyotl' del Códice Techialoyan García Granados", eds. Xavier Noguez y Stephanie Wood De tlacuilos y escribanos (1998), 79.