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tetlailtican.

Headword: 
tetlailtican.
Principal English Translation: 

a place that is dirty and disgusting (see Molina; Engl. transl. here by Stephanie Wood)

Alonso de Molina: 

tetlailtican. lugar suzio y asqueroso.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 108r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.