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teteitza.

Headword: 
teteitza.
IPAspelling: 
teteitsɑ
Alonso de Molina: 

teteitza. nitla. (pret. onitlateteitz.) roer huesso o cosa semejante.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: 

TETEITZ(A) vt to shatter something, to grind something to bits / roer hueso o cosa semejante (M), quebrar estas cosas (vidrio o otras cosas delicadas) en muchas pedazos (C), lo desmorona (Z) [(1)Cf.74r,(2)Zp.43,197]. SeeTEĪN(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 234.