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tetetla.

Headword: 
tetetla.
Principal English Translation: 

place of abundant stones (See Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tehtetlah
IPAspelling: 
tehtetɬɑh
Alonso de Molina: 

tetetla. lugar pedrogoso, o pedregal.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 107v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TEHTETLAH place of abundant stones / lugar pedregoso, o pedregal (M) [(2)Cf.18v,71v, (2)Tp.224,226]. redup. TETLAH
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 219.

themes: 
Stones, Masonry