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tetla.

Headword: 
tetla.
Principal English Translation: 

a stony ground, lava bed (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tetlah
IPAspelling: 
tetɬɑh
Alonso de Molina: 

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

Frances Karttunen: 

TETLAH stony ground, lava bed / pedregal (M) See TE-TL, -TLAH.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 235.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

tetla = lugar lleno de piedras
Rémi Siméon, Diccionario de la lengua náhuatl o mexicana (Mexico: Siglo XXI, 1996), xxxvii.

themes: 
Landscape Features
Stones, Masonry