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tlalteuhtli.

Headword: 
tlalteuhtli.
Principal English Translation: 

dust (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlālteuhtli
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑːltewtɬi
Frances Karttunen: 

TLĀLTEUH-TLI dust / polvo (X) [(2)Xp.92]. M has reflexive tlalteuhnemitia ‘for a sick person to turn ashen.’ X has TEUC for TEUH. See TLĀL-LI, TEUH-TLI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 277.