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tlecuilitl.

Headword: 
tlecuilitl.
Principal English Translation: 

fire pit with three stones to support cooking vessels, hearth, oven (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
tɬekwilitɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

TLECUIL(I)-TL pl: -MEH fire pit with three stones to support cooking vessels, hearth, oven / tlecuil, fogón, hornillo (T) [(1)Tp.239, (2)Zp.69,219]. M has tlecuilli ‘hearth.’ See TLE-TL, CUI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 307.

themes: 
Fire, Tobacco, Incense
Food, Eating, Cooking
Stones, Masonry