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tetepolli.

Headword: 
tetepolli.
Principal English Translation: 

something dull, blunted, stumpy (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tehtepolli
IPAspelling: 
tehtepolli
Frances Karttunen: 

TEHTEPOL-LI something dull, blunted, stumpy / desafilado (T referring to a knife) [(2)Tp.224]. See TEPOL-LI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 219.

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