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tlecotl.

Headword: 
tlecotl.
Principal English Translation: 

a dividing line; a line across the ball court; a ravine (see Molina and attestations)

IPAspelling: 
tɬekotɬ
Alonso de Molina: 

tlecotl. raya, o señal de fuego de pelota, o termino y plazo.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 147r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Attestations from sources in Spanish: 

una "línea divisoria (tlecotl)" en "una cancha de pelota"
Federico Fernández Christleib y Angel Julián García Zambrano, coordinadores, Territorialidad y paisaje en el altepetl del siglo XVI, México: Fondo de Cultura Económica y Instituto de Geografía de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, p. 448. Citando a Henry B. Nicholson, Topiltzin Quetzalcoatl, 2001, p. 29.

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