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miltepantli.

Headword: 
miltepantli.
Principal English Translation: 

a boundary or wall separating plots of agricultural land (see Molina and Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
miːltepɑːntɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

miltepantli. linde entre heredades de muchos.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 56v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

MĪLTEPĀN-TLI boundary, landmark, wall separating sections of cultivated land / linde entre heredades de muchos (M), la señal que indica las secciones de la milpa(T) [(1)Tp. 142]. See MĪL-LI, TEPĀN-TLI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 147.

themes: 
Land Tenure