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tletzintli.

Headword: 
tletzintli.
Principal English Translation: 

a small fire (see Molina); a flame, a fire (see Karttunen)

IPAspelling: 
tɬetsintɬi
Alonso de Molina: 

tletzintli. fuego pequeño.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 147v. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLETZIN-TLI flame, fire / lumbre, fuego, infierno (T) [(4)Tp.239]. T has this to the exclusion of TLE-TL. See TLE-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 308.

themes: 
Fire, Tobacco, Incense