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teteica.

Headword: 
teteica.
IPAspelling: 
teteikɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

teteica. (pret. oteteicac.) cruxir algo entre los dientes.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 106v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TETEICA to crumble, shatter, crunch, or for something to come apart from use / crujir algo entre los dientes (M), quebrarse vidrio o otras cosas delicadas ... si los pedazos son muchos (C), se desmorona (Z) [(1)Cf.74r,(4)Zp.43,79,167,222]. See TEĪN(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 234.