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tetectli.

Headword: 
tetectli.
Principal English Translation: 

loom

IPAspelling: 
teteːktɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

tetectli. estambre de tela.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 106v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in English: 

yhuan niquitoa centepan huipillatetectli yoan tochomitli auh monamacaz = And I declare that there is cloth on a loom for a huipil, and rabbit fur; it is to be sold (testament fragment from 1579)
The Testaments of Culhuacan, eds. S. L. Cline and Miguel León-Portilla (provisional) modified first edition, on line: http://www.history.ucsb.edu/cline/testaments_of_culhuacan.pdf, 2.

themes: 
Textiles, Clothing