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tetelli.
Headword:
tetelli.
Principal English Translation:
mound; or, a pyramid (Quauhtinchan, s. XVI)
Attestations from sources in English:
See an image that represents tetelli in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).
A glyph in the Codex Mendoza illuminates the meaning of tetelli as a stepped structure and therefore what Europeans called pyramids:
https://aztecglyphs.wired-humanities.org/content/cuauhtetelco