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tepoztlaxcaltzintli.

Headword: 
tepoztlaxcaltzintli.
Principal English Translation: 

iron pills (a neologism)

(eighteenth century; used by a doctor who was not a native speaker but had studied classical Nahuatl)
Neville Stiles, Jeff Burnham, James Nauman, "Los concejos médicos del Dr. Bartolache sobre las pastillas de fierro: Un documento colonial en el náhuatl del siglo XVIII," Estudios de Cultural Náhuatl 19 (1989), 269–287, see p. 280.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

También se ve: tepitontepoztlaxcalli = pastillas de fierro, otro neologismo (s. XVIII)
Neville Stiles, Jeff Burnham, James Nauman, "Los concejos médicos del Dr. Bartolache sobre las pastillas de fierro: Un documento colonial en el náhuatl del siglo XVIII," EEstudios de Cultural Náhuatl 19 (1989), 269–287, ver página 280.

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