foundation of a building, of a house; or the walls of a house (see Karttunen and Molina)
Orthographic Variants:
caltetzuntli
IPAspelling:
kɑltetsontɬi
Alonso de Molina:
caltetzuntli. cimiento de casa, hasta medio estado de pared. Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 11v. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.
Frances Karttunen:
CALTETZON-TLI foundation of a building / cimiento de casa, hasta medio estado de pared (M) [(1)Cf.75v]. See CAL-LI, TETZON-TLI. Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 22.