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teini.

Headword: 
teini.
Principal English Translation: 

to shatter (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
teiːni
Alonso de Molina: 

teini. quebrarse algun vaso, saltando con ruydo algun pedazo del.Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 94v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TEĪN(I) to shatter / quebrarse algún vaso, saltando con ruido algún pedazo de él (M) [(4)Cf.18v,73v,74r,105r].

TEHTEĪN(I) redup. TEĪN(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 220.

Attestations from sources in English: 

teini (verb) = to break, to fracture
Daniel Garrison Brinton, Ancient Nahuatl Poetry: Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems (1877), 162.