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tetloc.

Headword: 
tetloc.
IPAspelling: 
teːtɬok
Alonso de Molina: 

tetloc. con alguno o par de alguno.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 110v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TĒTLOC by, close to, next to someone / con alguno o par de alguno (M) [(3)Bf.4V,9r,9v]. See -TLOC.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 236.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents tetloc in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).