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tepepechtli.

Headword: 
tepepechtli.
Principal English Translation: 

base of a column, stone foundation (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tepehpechtli
IPAspelling: 
tepehpetʃtɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

tepepechtli. basa de coluna.
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.

Frances Karttunen: 

TEPEHPECH-TLI base of a column, stone foundation / base de columna (M), empedrado (T) [(1)Tp.225]. See TE-TL, PEHPECH-TLI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 229.

themes: 
Architecture, Construction, Buildings