tetzahuatemitl.

Headword:

tetzahuatemitl.

Principal English Translation:

a white body louse (see Molina and Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants:

tetzauatemitl

IPAspelling:

tetsɑːwɑtemitɬ

Alonso de Molina:

tetzauatemitl. piojo blanco del cuerpo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 111r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen:

TETZĀHUATEM(I)-TL body louse / piojo blanco del cuerpo (M) [(3)Xp.87]. See TETZĀHUAC, ATEM(I)-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 236.