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tlaltetl.

Headword: 
tlaltetl.
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑːltetɬ
Alonso de Molina: 

tlaltetl. terron grande.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 124v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLĀLTE-TL pl: -MEH clod, lump of earth / terrón grande (M) [(1)Tp.240, (2)Zp.122,209]. See TLĀL-LI, TE-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 277.