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caltetzontli.

Headword: 
caltetzontli.
Principal English Translation: 

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.