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tlanitztetequi.

Headword: 
tlanitztetequi.
Principal English Translation: 

to cut one’s shin bone; to cut someone on the shin bone (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlanītztehtequi
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑniːtstehteki
Frances Karttunen: 

TLANĪTZTEHTEQU(I) vrefl, vt; pret: -TEHTEC to cut one’s shin bone; to cut someone on the shin bone / se corta la espinilla (T), le corta la espinilla (T) [(6)Tp.160]. See TLANĪTZ-TLI, TEHTEQU(I).

TLANĪTZTEHTEQUILIĀ applic. TLANĪTZTEHTEQU(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 286.