to cut one’s shin bone; to cut someone on the shin bone (see Karttunen)
Orthographic Variants:
tlanītztehtequi
IPAspelling:
tɬɑniːtstehteki
Frances Karttunen:
TLANĪTZTEHTEQU(I) vrefl, vt; pret: -TEHTEC to cut one’s shin bone; to cut someone on the shin bone / se corta la espinilla (T), le corta la espinilla (T) [(6)Tp.160]. See TLANĪTZ-TLI, TEHTEQU(I).
TLANĪTZTEHTEQUILIĀ applic. TLANĪTZTEHTEQU(I). Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 286.