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tlancochtli.

Headword: 
tlancochtli.
Principal English Translation: 

molar tooth (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlancochtli
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑnkotʃtɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

tlancochtli. muela dela boca.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 127v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLANCOCH-TLI molar tooth / muela de la boca (M) C and Z agree with M that this refers to molar teeth, but I glosses it as ‘eyetooth, canine tooth.’ See TLAN-TLI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 284.

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