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tliltetl.

Headword: 
tliltetl.
Principal English Translation: 

paragraph; a point above a letter; or a tilde (literally, black stone)

IPAspelling: 
tɬiːltetɬ
Alonso de Molina: 

tliltetl. parrafo, o punto encima de letra, o tilde.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 148r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

"[L]a marca puesta al principio de un párrafo tliltetl—piedra negra, mojón."
Juan Fernández Ferras, Nahuatlismos de Costa Rica (1892), 36.

themes: 
Writing, Literacy