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tlatequiloni.

Headword: 
tlatequiloni.
Principal English Translation: 

saw, scissors, cutting instrument (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlatequilōni
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑtekiloːni
Frances Karttunen: 

TLATEQUILŌNI saw, scissors, cutting instrument /sierra, tijeras (Z) [(3)Zp.115,122,215]. See TEQU(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 296.

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