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etla.

Headword: 
etla.
Principal English Translation: 

bean patch (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
etlah
IPAspelling: 
etɬɑh
Alonso de Molina: 

etla. eredad de frisoles, o hauas.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 29r. col. 2. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

ETLAH bean patch / heredad de frijoles, o habas (M), frijolar (Z) [(1)Zp.153]. See E-TL, -TLAH.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 78.

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