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tepeitic.

Headword: 
tepeitic.
Principal English Translation: 

a valley, or a gorge between mountains (literally, inside the mountains) (see Molina)

IPAspelling: 
tepeːihtik
Alonso de Molina: 

tepeitic. valle, o quebrada de sierras.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 102v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TEPĒIHTIC valley or ravine among mountains / valle o quebrada de sierras (M) [(1)Cf.21v]. See TEPĒ-TL, -IHTEC.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 230.

Attestations from sources in English: 

tepeitic (noun) = narrow valley, glade, glen
Daniel Garrison Brinton, Ancient Nahuatl Poetry: Containing the Nahuatl Text of XXVII Ancient Mexican Poems (1877), 163.

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